Art,
if you got the same problem using USB 2.0 and Firewire, then you can exclude a
firewire problem. Does the kdf also work with USB 2.0?
Anyway, I've noticed some points about your /etc/fstab below:
Quoting Art Fore
Got another drive kit with USB2 & Firewire and tried the same disk drive in the USB2. Same thing as with firewire drive, it just comes up with different mount point in /media.. A work colleague has Mepis installed, and he tried it, it works great also as firewire. I downloaded the KDiskFree (kdf), which Mepis uses, and installed it. Now I can mount and access the ntfs partition, but when doing the reiserfs partition, it says it is already mounted. Guess I need to figure out how to stop it from the automatic mounting somehow.
Kernel is the default Suse kernel after yast online update.
Art
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
Quoting Art Fore
: fstab entries
/dev/sda2 /Firewire/winc ntfs ro,noauto,users,uid=afore,gid=users,umask-0002 0 0
The ro option is not necessary, unless you change the kernel. By default the ntfs driver doesn't allow writing. What happens if you remove the umask option ?
/dev/sda6 /Firewire/linux reiserfs noauto,uid=afore,gid=users 0 0
You should not use the uid and gid options with reiserfs. I'm sorry if I've gave you this impression. By the way, I was having a problem yesterday, just because of this. After removing the uid and gid it started working again! :-( Hope this helps. ------------------------------------------ Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto Network Manager and Systems Administrator Angra do Heroísmo Nursing School (ESEnfAH) ------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.