Mounting an External HDD through eSata

The same externalhdd worked fine through USB, but when I use my new esata cable it hangs. I see it under 'Computer' but it doesn't mount.

yes, my (edited for the forum) fstab looks like:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
UUID=052b681d-41cc-4d33-9c9a-28e2f3aaf8b9 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=e9dba36b-f194-4f01-bafa-607b9f257fcf / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=108,devmode=664 0 0
EXTERNAL HDD==> UUID=92309FAD309F96B7 /mnt ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
the files in the hdd appear in /mnt/, but I can't access them, it gets a permission error. it doesn't even let me change permissions
Last edited by Csosa (2009-08-09 16:42:33)

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