Firewire-disk prob :-(

[Guest pyrus]

 

I'm a total newbee, so bare with me.. And my spelling is awfull. I'm from Denmark.. well here's my problem.

I got 3 Firewire disk external, at 120Gb each, formatet with NTFS and filed with video and music.. But I can't see whats on them in my Mandrake 10.. here's my fstab:

 

/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

/dev/sdc1 /mnt/Win_k auto iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,ro,kudzu 0 0

/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto codepage=850,sync,unhide,iocharset=iso8859-15,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0

/dev/hdd1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15 0 0

/dev/sda1 /mnt/win_i auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,unhide,codepage=850,noauto,ro,kudzu 0 0

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/win_j auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,unhide,codepage=850,noauto,kudzu 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

 

As you can see i have disabled "supermount" (FAQ IM-04)

 

I can see the discs in my mnt folder, but it just tell me that there is 0 files..

 

Can anyone help??

Pyrus

 

[link fixed by spinynorman - welcome to the board :) ]

[iphitus]

When you disable supermount, you now need to mount them manually.

 

All you need to do is:

 

mount /dev/sda1

mount /dev/sdb1

mount /dev/sdc1

 

And the contents of each should appear in the appropriate folder.

 

Obviously you dont need to mount all of them every time, so choose whichever one you need to mount.

 

When you are done, don't forget to

 

umount /dev/sdXX

 

Replacing sdXX with the name of the one you are done with. Unmounting the drive writes any waiting data to the drive and prepares it to be removed from the computer.

 

iphitus

[Hirogen2]

Note that NTFS is not that supported as on Windows.

(But it's getting close.)

[Guest pyrus]

When i type the mounts in a consol as su, it reports a failure.. but it is in danish, so i dont know if it helps you help me...

 

And I can allready see the drives in the mnt folder, dosn't that meen that they are mounted??

 

Thanks for the support..

[aRTee]

1) just kicking this topic since pyrus asked me some stuff directly and this is not solved;

2) pyrus, can you give an update as to what you tried and what the system responded (including English translation if in Danish)

3) no if you see the 'drives' in /mnt this means nothing; these are just directories that can function as mount points; the actual drives are in /dev

/dev/sda1 .... /dev/sdc1

which are actually links as

ll /dev/sd?1

will show, that point to /dev/scsi/host#/ .. etcetc.. /part1

which are really your drives partitions, that you must mount.

[Guest pyrus]

Hi all, after trying several things We finally came to this

 

 

First open DiskDrake (Start/system/configuration/configure your system) (Mountpoints/Partitions) and set all external drives to "noauto", then open /etc/rc.local and typed in the lines..

 

mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/hd/ -tntfs -o uid=501

mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 /mnt/hd2/ -tntfs -o uid=501

mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part1 /mnt/hd3/ -tntfs -o uid=501

 

Hope anyone can get help from this, and be as happy for Linux as I just got...

 

 

And thanks go out to aRTee for helpin me through this... Thanks a lot..

Edited July 15, 2004 by pyrus