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