[GLLUG] Trouble Accessing external UDB hard drives from Western Digital

[Bryan Laur]

Hi dan,

automounting on Linux distributions can be done different ways, and I 
don't know what method OpenSUSE uses (if any) to do so.

If all else fails, you should just mount the partition manually.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mount+ntfs+partition+linux

something like this:
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs


http://linuxconfig.org/How_to_mount_partition_with_ntfs_file_system_and_read_write_access



Now, since these are both primarily linux drives, I would not use ntfs 
on either of them.

Therefore, run gparted and format both drives to ext4.
(install gparted first if necessary)


For permanent drives, the typical way to mount-on-boot is to use fstab.
wiki has good documentation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab
There are also hundreds of guides on google.


As far as automounting the non-permanent USB drive, I am not really sure 
of. You could use hotplug or something.
You could also add it to fstab assuming it will be plugged in on boot.
(Or, I think if you just run `mount` afterwards with no arguments it'll 
mount it automatically? not sure on that one.)



On 10/14/2011 9:27 AM, dburk at ws6transam.org wrote:
> Good Morning,
> First post to the list.
>
> I'm Dan, a relatively new Linux user who is trying to help out the MSU
> seismic department. I bumped into the project (of all things) because of a
> craigslist ad for a log I was trying to get rid of, and they found out
> that I was an ex-USAF seismic analyst! Well I got the time at the moment,
> and used to really enjoy working with seismic data, and so far it's been
> pretty fun to help out the college with this project. They even taped a
> little sign up on the door and made me the official "NERSP engineer",
> which sounds a lot like NERD, or nurse...but hey.
>
> I'm trying to create a useful, researchable subsurface data collection
> that is comprised of seismic data from Northeastern Russia located on
> about 1500 CDROMs. The data needs to be converted from a Windows-based
> Russian seismic format into a standardized format called "SAC". The first
> thing I'm doing is indexing the whole collection, then getting it off the
> CDROMS and into a directory structure. Each disc contains about 4000
> files, so we're talking about six million+ files that will need to be
> converted. The standard data format is based on the Linux platform, which
> is good, I think. I need to work on an automated conversion routine that
> takes the data, validates the timing (and corrects if necessary), then
> splits each file into four SAC files which represent the various
> seismometers from the dataset. I figure the process will require a mixture
> of Bourne shell scripting, PERL, and C code.
>
> I've got a book coming on PERL scripting (which I've never done before)
> and I'm going to have to brush up on my C coding, which I haven't done in
> like, fifteen years.
>
> I'm using OpenSUSE version 11.4 with KBE on my home machine (which is
> supposed to be a mirror of the university computer), and at the
> university, I run OpenSUSE version 11.2 with GNOME.
>
> I need to get this data off the CD-ROMs and onto a couple of hard drives.
> So yesterday I had delivered two drives: An internal SATA 2 Tb drive, and
> an external 3TB USB 2/USB3 drive from Western Digital that I'll use for
> offsite backup. Now, I've plugged in USB flash drives into this computer
> with no problems, and I've even used a USB external drive (300 GB)
> successfuly, and they have auto-mounted. However this new WD drive doesn't
> mount properly. It's coming up in Linux as /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 when I
> look at it in YAST / Partitioner, but the os isn't identifying the format
> as NTFS. At this point I am feeling rather confused with the whole thing.
> I have NOT yet tried to plug in the 2 TB internal drive as I don't have
> the SATA cable... The university forgot to order that part and I'll have
> to pick one up at Digilink. I am hoping that I don't have a similar
> auto-mounting problem with this drive.
>
> I've checked over the OpenSUSE user forums, and have not seen any similar
> problems or solutions. I thought maybe I'd check into the local group
> here, say hello, and seeing as I'm jumping into this Linux with both feet,
> figure I might as well get involved a bit. Is there anyone local here in
> the Lansing area that can help me figure out how to access this drive? I'm
> going to need this storage space pretty soon, as I am halfway through
> indexing the CDROMS, and will soon want to start moving the data.
>
> Thanks,
> -Dan Burk
> Haslett, MI
> 517-388-2875
>
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