I have RHEL5 running on my home laptop, using a couple of external USB drives previously used with a Windows XP/Windows Server 2003 dual-boot desktop for storage (i.e. formatted with NTFS). Installing kernel-module-ntfs RPM packages enabled me to mount and read, but not write to, those drives. You could also try the NTFS-3G driver (which apparently should allow you to write to NTFS drives), but that one didn't work for me, for some reason (haven't investigated it in any detail yet). Johan -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vidiot Sent: 30 July 2007 15:39 To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: USB external disk drive compatibility >On 7/30/07, Wartnick, James <James.Wartnick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have a laptop with RH Enterprise 5 and am looking at getting a >> portable USB external disk drive. I was Looking at the Western >> Digital Passport but am unsure if it is supported. I didn't see Linux >> drivers on their Web-site. Anyone know if it's supported? > >Yes, it should work fine. More than likely you'll have to reformat the drive. The USB drive that I connected to my FedoraCore 6 system would not mount, because for some strange reason, FC6 does not support NTFS (Windblows). Doing so means that I can longer attach it to W2K, or later. If there is a secret as to how to get USB NTFS drives to mount, I'll pull the data off and get Windblows to reformat it. MB -- [I've been to Earth. I know where it is. ] \ / Ribbon Campaign [And I'm gonna take us there. Starbuck 3/25/07] X Against Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ / \ HTML Email -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
