AA1 and external hard drives

JCL · Nov 1, 2008

Just bought an 8Gb Linux AA1 as a portable addition to my windows PC and I would like to use my Seagate FreeAgent external drive with both machines.

When I plug it it into the AA1, it gets detected and shows as "FreeAgent Drive" but when click on it I get the following error message: Failed to mount "FreeAgent Drive". Unknown file system 'ntfs'

What do I need to do to fix this? Any help in a step-by-step that' what you need to do kind of way would be great as I'm not very technical

JC

kapinouwi · Nov 1, 2008

yum install ntfs-3g

JCL · Nov 1, 2008

brilliant, just tried it and it works
thanx a lot
JC

kyasuriin · Dec 20, 2008

kapinouwi said:
yum install ntfs-3g

does this work on all external hard drive? im planning to buy a portable hard drive but what's stopping me is that im afraid i might not able to use it on my AA1 linux.

dskid807 · Dec 20, 2008

Yeah, it works with any external drive and you may not even have to do that if your drive is formatted with FAT32. If the drive is NTFS it will still work if you do the sudo yum install ntfs-3g.

MathProfJohnson · Dec 21, 2008

I have a Maxtor (sorry, don't know the name but it is just a bit bigger than my iPhone), 250GB and it works great!

donec · Dec 21, 2008

I don't remember the details now but a while back there was a report out that "FreeAgent Drives" would not work with Linux. I don't know if that has changed or not but you should look into it.

Asa · Jan 8, 2009

Hi,
I've a 320G Seagate external HD that I would like to use with my AA1 8G.
I've read the post but I never used Linux, don't know even where to type the command yum install ntfs-3g
Can u please help?

thanks

Asa

Paul_Cracknell · Jan 10, 2009

Hi Asa

You input it in something called the terminal. Depending on what you've already done, the way to access your terminal is open up the file manager then file>terminal

Type in there.

Magnetron10 · Jan 12, 2009

I've got ntfs-3g installed and I still get the 'cannot mount' error. I've gone into terminal and tried DF to see what was available and It's not their either. Which really I suppose would make sense.