Mount USB NTFS drive at boot

I'm trying to get my NTFS formatted USB disk to mount at boot. I'm using FSTAB, but it fails with an error when it tries to mount- only problem is, arch boots so quickly I can't see it. It works fine mounting manually afterwards (using mount -a or explicitly telling it to). It also works fine within XFCE4, using thunar/volman.
I suspect the probem is that the drive hasn't been properly initalised when it's being booted.
The best solution, would be to have some kind of process that doesn't just mount drives when they're plugged in, like happens now, but that also just mounts all drives it finds that aren't already mounted. Is there anything that does this?
The second best solution would be to make arch run a mount command at the very end of boot- possibly and addendum to on of the rc files? I don't really want to do this, since it just seems a bit messy.
Cheers for any help!

Looks like ntfs module doesn't load immediately on the boot, just a little bit later so system cannot mount ntfs drive in the boot time. I see simple solution. Just add mount string into /etc/rc.local. rc.local starts at the end of boot process so usb device initialized and ntsf module loaded:
mount /mnt/Terra
or
mount -o remount /mnt/Terra
Last edited by knedlyk (2009-09-29 20:15:37)

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Prepare an usb thumb drive, to boot windows 7 or 8 in UEFI mode

Purpose of this post:
Prepare an usb thumb drive, to boot windows 7 in UEFI mode and install the system in pure UEFI mode.
Why am I writing this:
I had a hard time finding out how to make a custom installation of windows 7 in pure UEFI mode, and avoid using the factory restore disks. After hours of research, experiments etc I finally got the point and found a solution. And I'm happy to share my research with you. I hope this will be of help. If something is not clear, or more information is needed, I will be glad to explain things further.
History:
As most of you already know, BIOS was developed for PC in early eighties and has remained unchanged in recent years. But, since 2000, Intel started working on a new firmware interface, called Extensible Firmware Interface, abbreviated EFI. And since 2005 United EFI Forum has been handling the responsibility for development, management and promotion of UEFI specifications. Bigger companies like Intel, AMD, Microsoft and Dell have already started to bring out their products in accordance to UEFI standards which has more stable, secure and easier to use interface.
How does UEFI works (in a nutshell):
Once you power on the UEFI based PC, the Pre-EFI is executed which initializes only the CPU, memory and the chipset. This followed by Driver Execution Environment (DEX) where other hardware is initialized.
Advantages of UEFI:
    It can integrate various drivers this will not require to load during booting so saves time.
   PC can connect to network without OS.
   Also integrated drivers allow rendering GUI based control panel which out dates the old school bluish BIOS screen.
   Not all the installed hard drives are scanned as boot drive is set during the installation of OS in UFFI.
   Applications like anti-virus and diagnostic tools can be stored on virtually any non-volatile storage devices attached to a PC.
For a system to boot and install in UEFI the partition table of the HDD should be GPT (GUID Partition Table), not the old school MBR (master boot record). GPT has many advantages, can have virtually an unlimited number of partitions (windows will allow only 128) and impressively big partitions.
Since UEFI has a lot of advantages why not having a system install and boot in UEFI mode? AFAIK new Lenovo notebooks/netbooks are UEFI capable and OS’s are already installed in pure UEFI mode.
So, let’s go now to the point. Do you want to have more control over your HDD? Let say, you have a 320GB HDD and you have divided it in two partitions, one of 50GB, for your Windows 7, and the remaining for your data. If something goes wrong and you need to restore your system to factory default, with the recovery disks, it will wipe your partition scheme, set the system to default and this way your data will be lost.
You may want to make a “vanilla” installation of windows from a USB thumb drive and avoid using factory recovery disks. Now here things get complicated. A standard preparation of the USB with Microsoft’s software (Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool), or other tools, will give you a bios installation, not a UEFI one. So for the system to boot, you will need to change some settings in bios, and changing it from UEFI to legacy bios. The installation will prepare the HDD in MBR partition table, and you will lose all the advantages of UEFI, described above.
Now this can be avoided, by properly preparing an USB to boot and install in UEFI mode. Here are the steps:
Step by step tutorial:
1.   In a windows computer, download a legal copy (although trial) of the windows 7 os. You can do this from here: http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/
Be sure to download the same version that came preinstalled in your computer. For example, if you have a Lenovo x120e, with a Windows 7 professional, 64bit, download an iso image of the Windows 7 professional 64bit.
2.   Once downloaded burn the iso to a USB thumb (at least 4GB) using Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool.
3.   After preparing this, create a folder on your computer, name it whatever (i.e. W7pro64bit). Go to the root of your USB
and select all the files and folders there (9 in total) copy, and paste to your folder you created, W7pro64bit.
4.   Using windows format the usb again in FAT32. Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool, formats it in NTFS. We need a FAT32 formatted disk to achieve our goal. Formating again the USB in FAT32 will not touch the MBR of the USB thumbdrive. And after copying back the files (see step 6) the USB will still be bootable. (nice, and simple, isn't it?)
5.   Now go to the folder W7pro64bit and do the following:
a.   Browse to W7pro64bit\sources\ and open install.wim file. It’s a big file, and can be opened as an archive with 7zip (free software). Do not extract it, do not modify it, just browse the file with 7zip. Just to be sure you do not mess with that file, you can copy it somewhere else in your computer, and than procede.
b.   Browse this file (install.wim) to \1\Windows\Boot\EFI\ and locate the file bootmgfw.efi. Do not move, delete it, but just drag that file to the desktop. (if you have copied the file install.wim to another place in your computer, than you are safely do whatever you want with that file ) Close the 7zip program to release the install.wim file.
c.   Rename the file you just copied to the desktop from bootmgfw.efi to bootx64.efi.
d.   Now go back to w7pro64bit folder and browse \efi\Microsoft. Form there copy the folder boot and paste it one level up, on the folder: \efi. It will look like this: \efi\boot.
e.   Now copy the file you saved on your desktop and renamed (bootx64.efi) to \efi\boot (inside the boot folder you copied on step 5d
6.   Now go to the root of the folder W7pro64bit and select all folders and files (9 in total) copy, and paste all those files back to your USB thumb drive. (see step 4 for more info)
7.   Go to the computer that you are going to reinstall, and before restarting it, use the program ABR (activation backup and restore) to backup the license of your windows os. (use google to find ABR). Advanced Tokens Manager (ATM ) is great too. This link may be of help: Backup and restore W7 activation. After the program finishes its magic, it will create a few files inside the folder where the program itself reside. Copy these files to a new folder in your usb. Rename it to ABR so you will quickly find it later. (if you decide to use ATM, the procedure may be a little different. But you are smart enough to figure out how to use it)
8.   Backup to an external storage all your data before continuing.(reminder: are you sure you saved the license as explained in step 7, to a safe place? To a external drive, to another computer? If you are sure, than go on with step 9)
9.   Now restart your laptop, and enter your bios settings. Go to the boot settings, and set the computer to boot in UEFI only. Not both, not UEFI first, or legacy, BUT UEFI only. Save and restart.
10.   Press f12 (or the corresponding key for your machine) to choose the boot device and chose to start from the USB thumb drive with your windows 7 pro 64 bit.
11.   If everything is done correctly, your computer will boot from the USB.
12.   Follow the wizard and choose a custom install, not upgrade. At the disk partition window delete all the partition you see there until you have only one unallocated space.
13.   Select it, and click next to install windows, without making partition in this point. The installer will create a GPT partition table not a MBR since the USB booted in UEFI mode.
14.   Immediately after the first restart remove your USB thumb, and the installation will continue from the HDD. Wait until installation finishes.
15.   When you will be finally on your desktop, on the installed OS plug your USB go to the ABR folder and click on restore.exe. It will restore your license and your copy of windows will be activated.
16.   Now you can go in computer management/disk management and shrink the HDD to create your partitioning scheme. Make sure to leave enough space to your windows os. (30gb or more for extra programs you will install at your choice)
17.      Download from lenovo.com thinkvantage system update and update your system. Windows update too can install all the necessary drivers, if you need only basic drivers support.
Note: if tvsu will fail to work, see this:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkVantage-Technologies/ThinkVantage-System-Update-Servers-down-the-wh...
It may look a looong tutorial, but once you do this for the first time, it will look a piece of cake.
Final words:
From now on, you can install windows 7 in UEFI mode with your special USB without changing your partition scheme anymore. If you have a data partition beside your os partition (see the example above), when you reinstall the system using your USB thumb drive, at the disk partition window chose the partition where windows is installed, delete it, and reinstall windows to the unformatted area. Your partition with your data will be intact and the installation will automatically mount your data partition to the system. And, all the scope of this procedure, you will always have a pure UEFI installation of the system, with all its benefits.
Have fun!
abvasili
Moderator note: changed subject to match new content. Was: Prepare an usb thumb drive, to boot windows 7 in UEFI mode
I'm just a volunteer. I like to help others where I can. Do my ideas work? I hope so. o_O
Who helped you today? Do not forget to thank him.
My hardware: TP x120e 0596-2ru. Windows 7, sp1, 64Bit, English, installed in UEFI mode.

seanare wrote:
Thank you, as I noted here, your post was the key to my getting a Windows 8 SecureBooting setup on a W530.
In the case of Windows 8, I needed to copy the files away, reformat my USB key as FAT32 and copy the files back, and viola I was able to boot from my USB install media with the BIOS set to only boot UEFI. From there, there rest was easy (for Windows 8, the copying and renaming is not necessary, the key is having a FAT32 partition on the USB media, rather than an NTFS one; the EFI files are already in the right location).
Thank you again good sir.
You are welcome... and I'm happy that the change of the file system helps with windows 8 too. Thanks for confirming that.
abvasili
I'm just a volunteer. I like to help others where I can. Do my ideas work? I hope so. o_O
Who helped you today? Do not forget to thank him.
My hardware: TP x120e 0596-2ru. Windows 7, sp1, 64Bit, English, installed in UEFI mode.

How to mount USB & CDROM drives from single user mode - Solaris boot disk?

Hi All,
I need to carry out ufsrestore on a single newly replaced system disk (no redundancy / mirroring) from either USB or CDROM drives from the following steps:
( i ) GRUB => e, e, cdrom –s, Enter, b (boot from Solaris 10 x86 media).
( ii ) Choose menu 1 for Install Solaris Interactive Mode to reach single user mode.Below are the commands that I have tried in single user mode without success:
mount –r –F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 /cdrom (after unmount Solaris CD)
mount: /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 is not a DOS filesystem.
svcadm –v enable smserver
svcadm: Pattern ‘smserver’ doesn’t match any instances
svcadm enable autofs
svcadm: Pattern ‘autofs’ doesn’t match any instances
devfsadm
devfsadm: mkdir failed for /dev 0s1ed: Read-only file system
mkdir /mnt
mkdir: Failed to make directory “/mnt”; Read-only file systemPart of the problem is due to the current READ ONLY filesystems which does not allow the creation of mount point such as /mnt.
I have been able to create both / root (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0) and /export/home (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0) filesystems with newfs that are awaiting for restore using ufsrestore.
The only option I am left with is to attach a secondary disk to install Solaris 10 on either of them before bring the system to multi-user mode so that service such as volmgt, autofs, volfs are available to access USB & CDROM drives.
Any suggestion on how to resolve this issue?
Many thanks,
Jack

Hi JKGN,
Is the directory a located under the root filesystem. ie /a? Are there any other mount point for say USB drive as well? I am not in a position to try it out right now but will get back
to you soon on whether /a exist or not.
Btw, the last thing I managed to do on this system at the time was added a secondary 1TB internal disk with the intention to restore both / and /export/home data onto this disk while
making use of all the disk device management services such as the following services only available in a fully installed Solaris system (both single & multi-user modes) installed on the
primary disk:
# svcs smserver
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         Jun_08   svc:/network/rpc/smserver:default
# svcs autofs
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         Jun_08   svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default
# devfsadm
# iostat -En
c1t0d0           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: ATA      Product: SAMSUNG HD321KJ Revision: 0-11 Serial No:
Size: 320.07GB <320072932864 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 41 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c0t0d0           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 5 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: PHILIPS Product: DVD+-RW DVD8801 Revision: AD21 Serial
Size: 17.54GB <17538875392 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 5 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 10 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c2t0d0           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: JetFlash Product: Transcend 16GB   Revision: 1100 Serial No:
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 7 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
# rmformat
Looking for devices...
     1. Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0
        Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2
        Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/sd@0,0
        Connected Device: PHILIPS DVD+-RW DVD8801 AD21
        Device Type: DVD Reader/WriterHowever, I was disappointed that "iostat -En" has not found the secondary disk (1 TB) even though it was available earlier, for Solaris installation as the only disk on the same system.
As a result, I am left with no option but the need to rebuild this system with only a single primary disk while in single user mode. However, the single user mode that I am in is the
one from Solaris installation disk with restrictive (_cannot create folder for mount point or running disk management utilities_) capability such as those services just covered, compared to one from a completed Solaris installation system with full access to all filesystems and utilities / commands in general.
I would very much value your assistance on how to mount both CD & USB in this restrictive limited Read Only OS (assume that it is running from memory) in order to get complete access to
the blank primary disk so that full restore with ufsrestore could take place.
Thanks in advance,
Jack
Edited by: 797805 on 9/06/2012 04:15

[SOLVED] can't mount USB external drive since udev upgrade to systemd

At somepoint in time around the June 1 change from udev to systemd or the change from udisks to udisks2 something has changed the way my external USB drives auto-mount.
I have always just plugged them in and they show up in PacmanFM just fine. Now, they do show up but the NTFS drive is showing as read-only and another empty drive that I have reformatted using GParted to xfs, then ext2, and finally again using ext4 gives "Permission Denied" errors when I try to put a file on the drive. Happens no matter how I format it.
Did something change that I need to manually configure? Up to this point I relied on udev just kind of doing its thing - I never had to configure anything to get these drives to work properly.
Last edited by AyeCapn (2012-06-26 15:15:59)

Perhaps the cause of my issue might be relevant:
While the now deleted udev automount script from the Arch Wiki had worked for months without issue, approximately since the udev/systemd merger it became broken for NTFS partitions on USB devices.
It still worked with the classic initscripts, but with systemd it only resulted in "Transport endpoint is not connected" for the supposed mount point and ls reported lots of "?" for it.

Mount external hard drive on boot

I have a Mac mini run on SL, I want to set it up as a samba server with a external hard drive which formatted in NFS format.
I tried to write a plist in LaunchDaemons to call a script to mount the hard drive, but it does not work.
Here is my plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.kg.mount</string>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/System/Library/script/com.kg.mount</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
It get loaded at the start, if I user command 'launchctl list', I can see the service is loaded, but the disk is not mounted. If I run the plist manually after boot, the disk will be mounted.
Does somebody know how to mount a disk at boot time?
Thanks

The OS automatically mounts storage devices when they come online. If that doesn't happen, you need to fix the problem.
First back up the disk, if you haven't already done that.
Get rid of the script and the launchd item. Unload it first -- I assume you know how to do that.
Launch Disk Utility and select the "EX" volume, then run "Repair Disk." If any errors are reported, repeat until there are no more.
If the disk is now mounted, unmount it. Check the /Volumes directory for any empty subdirectories named "EX", "EX-1", or some such. If present, delete them.
Unplug the drive, then plug it in again. If it still doesn't mount, plug it into a different port (if it's USB.) If it still doesn't mount, try it on a different Mac.

XP Mounting USB Hard Drive

Hello - I am trying to connect my USB hard drive to Airport Extreme under Windows XP Pro (SP3), but am unable to successfully mount the hard drive. I have gone through all of the instructions via Apple's support documentation without success (I get an error msg stating the disk needs repair). Are there better instructions out there? Do I need to setup other system configs in XP in order to use the disk wirelessly? Thanks!

Yes, I did install the CD that came with the AEBSn, and have since updated the firmware, etc. I can access the utility, but the only thing that happens is it tells me the disk needs repair.
The drive is NTFS formatted.
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Windows 8.0 pro needs an NTFS drive but boot camp didn't make one

Just got a new macbook pro and went through the steps to get windows 8 pro on the machine as well. all seemed to go well until windows asked which drive to install windows on. I selected the one i had partitioned to 50gb.
Error. windows needs an NTFS drive to install to.
Any ideas?
I've read some ways of "turning on" NTFS support on the mac book but as Apple doesn't "support" it, will I be putting my machine at risk for technical help from Apple if I do the command line stuff?
It seems pretty silly to go through all these steps and then find that the drive that has been partitioned isn't the correct version.
Any help gratefully received.
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You are not following the Boot Camp Installation instructions located here: http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/. You do not format the Boot Camp partition, you follow the instructions about formatting, especially the part about selecting the advance option and selecting format.

How to mount USB Flash Drive

Hello again Arch-Linux users,
I always search google very hard and for months (off and on) I search for how to mount a USB Flash Drive. Nothing ever work so I give up than try again months latter. I don't want to give up anymore and that is why I join this forum.
Here are some of the code I found on the net. Some of these commands will only re-mount the entire Arch-Linux running system in /mnt/usbstick.
sudo mount -o rw,noauto,async,user,umask=1000 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick
... don't work it only re-mount the entire system
/dev/sda15 /mnt/usbstick vfat user,noauto,unhide 0 0
... don't work... I found nothing inside /mnt/usbstick
mount -t vfat -o rw,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1001,gid=100,umask=077,iocharset=utf8 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick
... don't work... here is the error i get:
mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /mnt/usbstick busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is mounted on /
It strange that most USB mount commands use the operating system partition itself- example: /dev/sda1 as the device for USB device, while others use /dev/cdrom for cd - /dev/dvd for dvd and /dev/fd0 for floppy.
Could someone post the code that will easily mount a usb device under Arch_Linux.
I'm using Arch-Linux core-64 (08-2009)
Thanks in advance
Last edited by sharris (2010-06-17 21:58:43)

Thanks fsckd,
I needed a rapid reply because I been wasting too much time not getting anything done because I needed to get pass this flash-drive thing. I can now have a secure back-up in my pocket on USB to go. Arch-Linux does it better for what I seen while just dd'ing on disk.
...lsusb
Found it
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand.org … susb8.html
Thanks demian,
sdb is the location for my single hard-drive machine. I saw it before in my list above but I changed it to sda1 because I knew no better. I had no clue it represent a 2nd hard-drive for LINUX if one is not already present.
This did it for me
Thanks again

Mount USB/Firewire drive from shell or cron job

Is there a way to mount a USB/Firewire drive from the shell or possibly mount it using a cron job? Here's the situation. I have a user that keeps all of her data on her desktop or in her Documents folder. I have attached a firewire drive to her PowerMac G5 (OS 10.4.6) and successfully created cron jobs to backup her entire user folder every night. The problem is that she logs off of her computer before she leaves work. When she logs of the firewire drive unmounts and the cron job fails because it cannot find the drive. I was hoping there was a way to mount the drive using a script so that it will mount, let the cron job run, and then possibly unmount the drive afterwards. Any help with this would be much appreciated.
MacMini, PowerMac G5, iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Try adding the following line to the beginning of the job:
mount -a
You may need to add u and/or w to the command after the a without any additional spaces for the mount to work properly.
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HOW TO YOU ADD USB FLASH DRIVE TO BOOT OPTION

i HAVE TWO LAPTOPS SAME MODEL NUMBER ONE CRASHED, hp SUPPORT TALKED ME THROUGH F11 TO RECOVER TO FACTORY CONDITION THE LAPTOP STOP AT 100% WITHN1 MINUTE LEFT TO CMPLETE. HP TOLD ME TO ESCAPE AN DO F2 TO CHECK THE HARD DRIVE. THAT WORK IT SHOWED ALL THE CHECKS PASSED. IT TOOK 2 + HOURS SO WHEN i CALLED BACK DIFFERENT PERSON SAID $350 SEND IT THEY WILL FIX. iT'S NOT IN WARRANY SINCE FEB2014 i ONLY PAID $399 FOR IT, CANNOT AFFORD THAT. SO HP TECH SAID USE SECOND PC TO MAKE A FLASH DRIVE . (I MADE CD'S WHEN I FIRST GOT IT BUT THEY DID NOT WORK). SO GOT A FLASH DRIVE WTH 32GIGS (I THOUGHT SHE SAID I NEEDED AT LEAST 20 GIGS) COPIED THE RECOVERY PROGRAM, NOW THE USB WILL NOT OPEN. FROM AN EARLIER WRITTER HE WAS TOLD TO F10 BIOS, ESC LOOP FOR BOOT OPTIONS TO SEE IF USB FLASH DRIVE IS THERE. MY PROBLEM ITS NOT ON MY PC SO HOW DO I ADD IT SO THE USB WILL OPEN.
RIGHT NOW PC IN A LOOP WHEN POWERED ON HP AND TIME COMES UP, LITTLE WHILW A BLOCK WITH HP/DAT/TIME COMES UP AND A CMD ON BOTTOM OF SCREEN, IT GOES BY TOO FAST T CLICK ON IT AND GOES BACK TO HP LOGO. IF I COULD ADD USB FLASH AS AN OPTION IT MIGHT MAKE IT OPEN ANY HELP APPRECIATED.

The flash drive is not going to show up if it is not bootable. To make a bootable Recovery on flash you have to use Recovery Manager just like you do to create cd/dvd Recovery.
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Problems mounting USB thumb drives and transferring files

My iMac 24" (10.5.4) won't recognize a USB thumb drive (even if plugged directly into computer, not hub) unless I restart. Then when I try to transfer large number of files back or forth from thumb drive, it won't complete the transfer, gets hung up.
None of these problems with my Intel MacBook (also 10.5.4).

You might try reformatting the usb drive using Disk Utility. Use MacOS Extended(Journaled). That might help.
lenn

Unable to mount USB NTFS hard drive on mac

I am trying to mount an iomega ego 1 TB USB hardrive on my mac pro.
The drive is formatted for windows. Normally you could at least see the drive mount. To help make it writeable from the mac I am using FUSE and Tuxera NTFS. After a clean reinstallation of snow leopard and update with the latest patches etc... This was working fine. The drive was seen by OSX and i could read/write to it without issues.
I then went about restoring some applications with the mac migration tool. Since that was done the drive no longer mounts to the desktop.
I see the following error in the console logs:
12/28/10 11:49:59 PM kernel USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 090000000000186D 0x59b 0x70 0x0
12/28/10 11:50:06 PM kernel SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x05, ASC = 0x20, ASCQ = 0x00
12/28/10 11:50:06 PM kernel SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x05, ASC = 0x20, ASCQ = 0x00
12/28/10 11:50:06 PM kernel SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x05, ASC = 0x20, ASCQ = 0x00
12/28/10 11:50:06 PM kernel SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x05, ASC = 0x20, ASCQ = 0x00
12/28/10 11:50:06 PM kernel SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x05, ASC = 0x20, ASCQ = 0x00
12/28/10 11:50:09 PM diskarbitrationd[12] unable to mount /dev/disk5s1 (status code 0x00000001).
12/28/10 11:50:23 PM USB Prober[459] USB Prober: GetUSBDeviceInformation() for device @5a110000 failed with kIOReturnNotResponding
did one of my migrated apps kebosh something? Any suggestions are welcome.

Those errors sound like your drive is having serious trouble. It is probably time to look for a replacement for it. I certainly hope everything on that disk is backed up.
Allan

Mounting USB Hard Drives and Hard Locking

So, it's been a long time since I've posted here which I have to say, is because Arch was running beautifully for a long time. Sadly though, my laptop was stolen and I was forced to buy a new one. With the new one, I've gotten everything mostly back up and running but I'm having an issue. Obviously the one in the subject line.
A few things to note about this install and after testing before posting.
1. Brand new install
2. All packages are current EXCEPT 3. I currently have nvidia-256.53-1-x86_64, nvidia-utils with the same version, and kernel26-2.6.35.5-1. These are due to a black screen I was getting on starting my xserver.
3. HAL is running
4. Optical disks mount and umount cleanly.
5. NTFS-3G is installed and working.
6. My Windows 7 install on the same internal hard drive can be accessed and mounted without a hard lock.
My problem is this. Whenever I try and connect an external hard drive via USB, it takes a few seconds and then the whole machine hard locks with what looks like a kernel panic(can't do anything and I have blinking lights...ie capslock, etc). This computer seems to have USB 3.0 which I noticed from Win7 awhile back if that makes a difference. (05:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation Device 0194 (rev 03) )
Last time I try to mount my WD Passport, I ran dmesg right after I plugged it in before I got my hard lock. The only thing I noticed were the entries at the bottom of things like this...
xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
I have no idea whether that has anything to do with it or not. I'd be more than happy to post config files if needed. I've tried googling, the wiki, and the forums and I'm stumped. I actually plugged my drive in one time and got it to mount and opened some folders. Afterward, it hard locked.
Last edited by Vipes (2010-12-10 07:09:42)

So, I started looking at my logs. Here's Dec 10 08:04:03 localhost kernel: sd Dec 10 08:04:03 localhost kernel: sd Dec 10 08:04:03 localhost kernel: sd Cut from my dmesg when I plugged the usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi6 : usb-storage 2-4:1.0 usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 scsi 6:0:0:1: CD-ROM WD sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 623769600 512-byte sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 10 00 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 51x/51x caddy sr 6:0:0:1: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 sr 6:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sdb: scsi 6:0:0:2: Enclosure WD SES Device scsi 6:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 13 sdb1 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint ses 6:0:0:2: Attached Enclosure device xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint fuse init (API version 7.14) xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled Kernel messages show pretty much the the bottom cut from errors.log:
6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
drive in:
xhci_hcd and address 0

My Passport 070A 1032 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4

Virtual CD 070A 1032 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
logical blocks: (319 GB/297 GiB)

1032 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4

endpoint
same thing. These logs were from just a moment ago when I plugged it in and then removed it. Sometimes it seems to hard lock, others it doesn't. Got me.

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i have windows xp installed on the same drive i have solaris installed on and i was wondering how to mount the winxp ntfs partition in solaris. there are a lot of files there id like to be able to use while im in solaris.
thanks.

Interesting. I'll have to try that. I tried the external USB formatted as FAT32 and it would work with Windows Backup because of the 4GB file size limit. I tried that with the drive plugged into the PC. I did not try it through the Time Capsule. I'll give that a go and see what happens.
I'll try the HFS+ format. I don't like FAT32 because of the fixed File Allocation Table size. When files get fragmented, and they always do, FAT can drop file clusters and the data is gone. NTFS doesn't have that problem and I understand that HFS+ doesn't either.
Now is the time to fool with this stuff before I get too much data out there to shuffle it around. My internal disks are filling rapidly so it's time to get hot. Thanks!

How to setup the WRT350N to use a USB NTFS Drive for backup storage?

My network consists of a WRT350N Router/AP/NAS (with a 500GB NTFS formatted USB drive), a Windows Vista Ultimate Desktop (wired connection), a Windows Pro SP2 Desktop (wired connection) and a Windows Pro SP2 Laptop (wireless connection).
Does anyone know what settings to use for the WRT350N and how to setup each of the computers to allow me to use the WRT350N for Backup file Storage?
For example: Can I/should I enable and use the ftp server functions? Can I just use the guest user account for all logins; etc.? Do I have to reformat the USB Drive to FAT32?
Any help would be appreciated!

Here is the clue to your question.
1.If you have formatted your Disk with the help of your computer it will be better if you reformat it with the "Erase" button
available on the Storage Tab of the Linksys
router's Setup page.
2.After that You need to make sure that you have
public IP address as your WAN IP on the status of the router to setup a FTP server.
3.You can use guest account for all your users but
please make sure that you select guest as group
while creating user.

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