Chris Baker wrote:

> A couple days ago, someone asked about Linux and Western Digital  
> external
> hard drives. This is a response, sort of. I am posting my notes on  
> how I got
> a Seagate Free Agent drive to work with Linux. I hope this will help  
> with
> other drives. I make no guarantees.
>
>
> We purchased a Seagate FreeAgent USB drive. Unfortunately, Seagate  
> only
> supports it with Windows and Macs. It worked find with Windows XP.  
> On the
> Linux box, that was a different story.
>
> Research indicated that the drive was already formatted into NTFS. I  
> knew
> this would not be an issue as people mount NTFS partitions all the  
> time on
> Linux.
>
> I went to the site www.linux-ntfs.org. I found just about all I  
> needed on
> that site. I found this page especially helpful:
> www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsmount. It had some good  
> instructions:
>
> First of all you need to download FUSE from Sourcefourge. Then:
>
> tar zxvf fuse-2.7.0.tar.gz
> cd fuse-2.7.0
> ./configure
> Make
> make install
>
> Then you need to install ntfsprogs:
>
> tar zxvf ntfsprogs-2.0.0.tar.gz
> cd ntfsprogs-2.0.0
> ./configure --enable-fuse-module
> Make
> make install
>
> This installed the ntfsmount command, which I did not have before.  
> But I
> wasn't quite finished.
>
> Apparently the issue with this drive has to do with power  
> management. I ran
> the command hdparm -Z to "disable Seagate auto-powersaving mode."  
> After
> that, I simply ran the command:
>
> ntfsmount /dev/sda1 /media/FreeAgent_Drive
>
> Then, I was ready to go. I could get to the hard drive through the  
> GUI or
> the command line.

Why didn't you just reformat it with your favorite filesystem?

Nils Breunese.

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