On 10/30/2016 04:15 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Everyone, I just purchased 3 WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drives that I had hoped to use for archive files for some digital images. Looks like WD has made it difficult to use for Linux. The google searches that I did stepped me through mounting it on a Windows 10 system and then formatting it with nts. Unfortuantely, when I tried to connect it to Fedora 24 I am still not able to recognize it to mount it. All of the /dev/sd* entries were the same before and after I plugged it in. Smartmontools appears to recognize it when it is plugged in a usb port, but pauses and does not finish its execution to completion. gparted scans all devices and does not finish when the drive is plugged in a usb port. Has anyone in the group figured out how to use these drives? Thanks for you help!!!! Greg Ennis _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I cannot speak for everyone else, but I've purchased WD external HDD's. And I've always just used the "Disks" utility to format-then-re-format them to FAT. Which is easiest when going from ext4 to NTFS and back again. It might take an extremely long time (depending on the speed of your machine) but it's do-able....and makes life a bit less painful in the long run....as FAT32 is recognized "globally" (In the world of IT and computers that is!!) HTH.
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