SC101 with NTFS

[ake...@insightbb.com]

I have Ubuntu 8.04 and using the SC101 driver for linux. I have a lot
of pix and music on one of my SC101 drives. Is there a way to use this
driver with an existing NTFS drive? I followed the Get Started Guide
and it has you make a new fs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[Iain Wade]

sure, try using http://ntfs-3g.sf.net to mount /dev/nbd0 instead of
re-formatting it.

--Iain

[ake...@insightbb.com]

I tried that and get the following error...

NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/nbd1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/nbd1' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?


What does it mean?

[Iain Wade]

have you tried /dev/nbd0 ?

just to confirm, are you using "ut attach <UUID> /dev/nbd0" first?

what does "fdisk -l /dev/ndb0" show?

you might need to use a partition on the disk rather than the raw device..

--Iain

[ake...@insightbb.com]

I ran the fdisk command again and got the following..

Disk /dev/nbd0: 65.4 GB, 65498251264 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7963 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x97561884

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/nbd0p1 1 7962 63954733+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

[ake...@insightbb.com]

I get the same error for /dev/nbd0. I can attach to the drive just an
error when I try to mount it.

I tried the fdisk command and didn't get a response.

The drive I'm trying to mount is a partition.

[Iain Wade]

so I think you will need to mount /dev/nbd0p1 ..

--Iain

[ake...@insightbb.com]

I tried mounting /dev/nbd0p1 and get the following error..

ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/nbd0p1': No such file or
directory
Please type '/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g --help' for more information.

I've typed 'mount.ntfs-3g --help' and it was no help.

[ake...@insightbb.com]

I have other partitions on the drive. I tried to reformat the drive
with windows and the SC101 utility, but I always got the 'NTFS
signature missing' error when I try to mount it. I tried gparted to
format the drive in Linux, but it failed.

[ake...@insightbb.com]

I worked w/ the ntfs-3g support and had no luck mounting the drive?
Is the drive mountable w/ ntfs? When I try to mount the drive I get
the following error..

root@tony-laptop:~# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/mapper/nbd0p1 /mnt/tony
Error reading bootsector: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/dev/mapper/nbd0p1': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory,
(e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for more details.

I used kpartx to make the drive in /dev/mapper per ntfs-3g support. I
looked at dmraid and didn't help. Is there something else that I can
do? I open to any suggestions.

Thanks,
Tony