cyberchef Posted August 24, 2007 Report Share Posted August 24, 2007 I bought an external HD. SimpleTech 250gb, usb 2.0 - it came formatted as NTFS. I expected to plug it in, reformat it with diskdrake, and away we go... however, it shows up in harddrake as a usb mass storage device, but is not seen at all in diskdrake. I did previously do this successfully with a 60gb external on this system - it was recognized, and no prob's in diskdrake. I'm running Mandriva 2007.1 on an HP laptop. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 24, 2007 Report Share Posted August 24, 2007 (edited) The regular recipe: - Get sure hal is running - Install ntfs-3g - Now either install something like ntfs-config (working, but unneccesarily bulky and carrying loads of Gnome dependencies), or - simply add to your hal ruleset what I'm suggesting HERE It simply works great, no matter what desktop you are using. Edited August 24, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberchef Posted August 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2007 Thanks for the reply! hal is running. ntfs-3g is installed. I was not so much concerned with mounting it as an NTFS volume, because I would have immediately reformatted it in diskdrake had it been listed there at all. Wouldn't being recognized in diskdrake precede any mounting issues? (or perhaps I don't understand that issue completely) What lies between being recognized by harddrake - and the drive being seen as hda.. sda.. whatever in diskdrake? I don't want/need r/w access to the external drive as ntfs, I would probably split it between HFS+ and ext3, as there is a linux laptop and a powerbook here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberchef Posted August 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2007 I edited the hal ruleset as you described in the above referenced topic. (/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-ntfs-policy.fdi) restarted hal. No difference. No harddrive. dmesg | grep usb returns the following: usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage usb-storage: device found at 3 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usb-storage: device scan complete and then: # diskdrake cannot get info for device (0:0:0:0) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/detect_devices.pm line 204. cannot get info for device (0:0:0:0) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/detect_devices.pm line 204. cannot get info for device (0:0:0:0) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/detect_devices.pm line 204. cannot get info for device (0:0:0:0) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/detect_devices.pm line 204. cannot get info for device (0:0:0:0) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/detect_devices.pm line 204. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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