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mounting new drive
Hello,
I got myself a problem and would appreciate help. I purchased two new RAID-capable G-force Fantom 3TB USB drives. Both formatted with NTFS and it is said require NTFS-3G for full functionality. I do have NTFS-3G on my RHEL5.5. Other NTFS USB drives, such as 750GB Passport from Western Digital, are mounted and fully functional. New drives, however, do not mount. Here is the output:
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[root@G5NNJN1 ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1498.6 GB, 1498675150848 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182203 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 10 80293+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 11 663 5245222+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda3 * 688 719 257040 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 720 182203 1457770230 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 728 4644 31463302+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda6 4645 182203 1426242636 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdc: 749.4 GB, 749452918784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91115 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 91116 731887584 7 HPFS/NTFS
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The drive is apparently seen by the system as device 007 on bus 1 though:
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[root@G5NNJN1 ~]# lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 413c:3012 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 413c:2003 Dell Computer Corp. Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 152d:2509 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp.
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1058:070a Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:2514 Standard Microsystems Corp. USB 2.0 Hub
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The insert that came with the drives also says that Linux distros with appropriate kernels support large large logical volumes (LUNS) > 2TB. Could this be a problem? What is appropriate kernels then?
FantomDrives techsupport responded that Linux is not supported, only Windows and Mac. If I knew that ahead, I certainly would not buy them, but I found this afterwards.
The question is - should I return both drives or there is a way to make them functional? If NTFS-3G cannot handle the drives, are there other drivers that can be tried? Can I reformat the drives?
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