[mdlug] NTFS-3g

[ebradley01 at wowway.com]

I too have used ntfs-3g under Mepis 6.5, and it worked great for me as well. 
I used it with a Seagate FreeAgent USB external hard drive.  The system
noticed that I'd plugged in the drive and it automatically used 'ntfs-3g' as
the file system type.

I did, however, eventually have to move the Freeagent to my XP box since it's
AutoSpinDown feature is hard-coded to 15 minutes; after which it refuses to
spin back up and only gives I/O Errors whenever you try to read/write to it. 
I found a fix online, but I couldn't seem to get it to work on my Mepis system
(due to my ineptitude, not the system itself ;) ) and I just found it easier
to plug it into my XP box and share it on the network.


Just in case anyone's curious, here's the fix I mentioned:

http://tinyurl.com/2exfuv


Evan

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> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:28:00 -0400
> From: "Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com>
> Subject: [mdlug] NTFS-3g
> To: "Mdlug (E-mail)" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
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>  So, it's alleged that Linux finally has safe read-write access to NTFS
> filesystems with the "third generation NTFS driver":
> 
>  http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
> 
>  I haven't bothered with this, but it'd be nice if it does, in fact,
> work. Anyone here tried it? Any problems, or just good vibes?
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
>  Ray Ingles                                              (313) 227-2317
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