Topic: Mount NTFS drives

[trenskow]

Hi there all

Im quite new at this linux, and smeserver, so i am quite happy that i have installed, and getting smeserver up and running fine.
I have followed the guide on adding an ekstra HD, as one big drive.
And now my question. I have a 40GB hd, that i would like to put in the server, but the partitions on it are NTFS, and there is a lot on the disk that i would like to use.
Can i mount them in smeserver, so that i can read&write from them... or in last case, read, so that i can put these files on one of the existing drives, and then make the 40gb to ext3.

thanks in advance

[Magnus]

I used this guideline when i mounted in a NTFS disk on my e-smith box..

mounted in a 160gb disk without any problems.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/instructions.html

Best luck!

Magnus

[trenskow]

thanks very much...

i wanted to try it out, but i when i put the 41gb disk i have in my server, the old machine that i am using, can apparently find and use such a big harddisk...

Do you know if i can put it in, not "config" it in the bios, and then the SME server still can use it?

[EnglishRob]

IIRC Linux has its own IDE drivers which detect things like the drive size which gets over the limitations of the BIOS.

Rob

[trenskow]

hmm.. when i put my 41 gb disk in the server, i get this error under startup of smebox

Partition check:
HDD <4> HDD DMA_TIMER_EXPIRY, DMA OFFSET 0X41
TIMEOUT WAITING FOR DMA

what to do? anyone knows what the proble is... o have tried to turn UDMA of on the hd, but that didn't help.