FireWire/USB-drive (Maxtor) - works mounted as root only. fstab included...

-=TRA=- · 01-10-2006, 07:37 PM

Hi!

I'm running Fedora Core 4, and have a 300Gb USB/FireWire disk from Maxtor. It's NTFS, and I've tried both mounting manually, and by adding the following line to /etc/fstab:

Quote:

/dev/sda1 /media/New_Volume ntfs auto,user,exec,mode=0555 0 0

I tried without the mode=0555 - same works as root. With it, I got an error while booting:

Quote:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or other error

So I changed from ntfs to auto. Same error.

Mounted manually, umounted, did a "chmod 555 New_Volume" and mounted it again. Guess what...

ls -l gave "dr-x------". Trying to chmod it when mounted, gives:

Quote:

chmod: changing permissions of "New_Volume": Operation not permitted

Any help from here would be nice - 'cause the man pages for chmod and fstab doesn't help anymore.

Thanks in advance!

-=TRA=-

-=TRA=- · 01-11-2006, 09:20 AM

None of the other posts regarding usb-disks can give any hints; I have ofcourse searched the web. Noone knows this one?

-=TRA=-

RemusX2 · 01-11-2006, 09:45 AM

Here's my fstab entry for my USB Thumbdrive... hope it provides some hints

Code:

/dev/sdb1		/mnt/usb	vfat		users,noauto,rw		0 0

Of course, yours would be /dev/sda1

This does work for me as both root and normal user.

-=TRA=- · 01-11-2006, 03:41 PM

Thanks. However I found a better solution... The disk is now EXT2, and I've installed a program in Windows that I found on
fs-driver.org

In fact it allows me to read AND WRITE from windows, and ofcourse - being EXT2 - linux accesses it totally.

Thanks for your help anyway; I'll try this on an almost identical harddisk (also Maxtor OneTouch USB/FireWire, but a smaller one - 200GBs..).

-=TRA=-

hellodio · 04-17-2006, 04:17 AM

I have the same sort of problem with trying to connect a Maxtor Onetouch 250 GB external harddrive (from a friend of mine) via USB2 to my Linux Suse 10 box.

However, it crashes all my file managers (?). It actually does show up on the desktop, but if I doubleclick on it, then the drive cannot be browsed (crash!!!). I've tried this too on my Debian 3.1 laptop, no success either.

Manually trying to mount the drive lets the command "mount" hang (!!!, I thought this is impossible!!!).

Further data: It's formatted as a single fat32 partition, it shows up as /dev/sda and /dev/dsa1. I KNOW this devive does work with Linux, other people on the internet have it working too, and the Maxtor support website (cryptically) says it works w/ kernel 2.6, if USB is supported (which is the case, of course!).

Under Windows it works flawlessly as a mass-storage-device (which causes my "friend" to flame me horrendously!). Did you really need to install a driver in Windows to access it in Windows?? I installed some of the Maxtor stupid software, but removed it and it still worked (in Windows).

What is it that you did that got your exteranl Maxtor drive working in Linux?