Posts: 1 mount fat32 fs on external firewire drive?

mr_dale · 12-08-2002, 05:31 PM

i am a new mac user, have some small experiece on linux boxes

i want to read a windows drive that i whacked into a firewire enclosure

os x sees the drive, but not the filesystem

anyhelp would be greatly appreciated

tia

mr_dale

physicsGuy · 12-09-2002, 01:56 AM

df -k
Jot down the disk#s# (the #s# that is)
sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk#s# /Volumes/(mountpoint; usually volume name)
Enter password when prompted.
Relaunch the finder, if necessary, to see the volumes.
I assume this is FAT or FAT32. Won't work on NTFS, I don't think.

If there is only one partition, I'm surprised you don't see it automatically.

mr_dale · 12-09-2002, 10:42 AM

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s9 9969024 3556336 6313000 36% /
devfs 95 95 0 100% /dev
fdesc 1 1 0 100% /dev
<volfs> 512 512 0 100% /.vol
automount -fstab [353] 0 0 0 100% /Network/Servers
automount -static [353] 0 0 0 100% /automount

i don't see the firewire device here?

thanks for your response

mr_dale

jkp23 · 02-12-2003, 02:21 PM

Well - I dont know whether Jaguar added NTFS support, but I have had it working in two different systems. Firstly, directly inside a G4 on the IDE chain and secondly inside a firewire enclosure. I had some trouble getting it to mount on the second occasion, but i had forgotton to set the drive to master. Soon as I did it worked fine.

Sounds to me like NTFS is fine!

12-08-2002, 05:31 PM	#1
mr_dale Prospect Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: NY, NY Posts: 3	Posts: 1 mount fat32 fs on external firewire drive? i am a new mac user, have some small experiece on linux boxes i want to read a windows drive that i whacked into a firewire enclosure os x sees the drive, but not the filesystem anyhelp would be greatly appreciated tia mr_dale

12-09-2002, 01:56 AM	#2
physicsGuy Prospect Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 5	df -k Jot down the disk#s# (the #s# that is) sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk#s# /Volumes/(mountpoint; usually volume name) Enter password when prompted. Relaunch the finder, if necessary, to see the volumes. I assume this is FAT or FAT32. Won't work on NTFS, I don't think. If there is only one partition, I'm surprised you don't see it automatically. __________________ physicsGuy Mac 7500, xlr8 carrieZIF, OWC G3/400/1MB, 448MB interleaved, OS 10.1.5

12-09-2002, 10:42 AM	#3
mr_dale Prospect Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: NY, NY Posts: 3	output from df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/disk0s9 9969024 3556336 6313000 36% / devfs 95 95 0 100% /dev fdesc 1 1 0 100% /dev <volfs> 512 512 0 100% /.vol automount -fstab [353] 0 0 0 100% /Network/Servers automount -static [353] 0 0 0 100% /automount i don't see the firewire device here? thanks for your response mr_dale

02-12-2003, 02:21 PM	#4
jkp23 Triple-A Player Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: back in t'ol' smoke :( Posts: 225	NTFS Works Well - I dont know whether Jaguar added NTFS support, but I have had it working in two different systems. Firstly, directly inside a G4 on the IDE chain and secondly inside a firewire enclosure. I had some trouble getting it to mount on the second occasion, but i had forgotton to set the drive to master. Soon as I did it worked fine. Sounds to me like NTFS is fine! __________________ JKP.