RE: USB external disk drive compatibility

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

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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.

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