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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    GK_LKA
    Posts: 481 from 2004/3/28
    From: Hungary
    Ok, tell me how can I mount my firend's external USB HDD, which is formatted with NTFS? There is existing an NTFS filesystem for MorphOS, isn't it? Is it possible at all?
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  • »25.05.07 - 13:28
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    catohagen
    Posts: 297 from 2003/5/20
    you can't.

    'V3.6
    - Mass storage class overhaul. Now supports bigger physical block sizes
    for automounting of RDB partitions, FAT/NTFS and also CD/DVD drives.'

    the morphos update for poseidon will probably be in next weeks morphos release.
  • »25.05.07 - 15:03
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  • MorphOS Developer
    CISC
    Posts: 619 from 2005/8/27
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    you can't.


    Bollocks.

    Quote:

    'V3.6
    - Mass storage class overhaul. Now supports bigger physical block sizes
    for automounting of RDB partitions, FAT/NTFS and also CD/DVD drives.'


    Like it says; this is just about automounting, you can mount an NTFS partition perfectly fine manually by using Geit's excellent GiggleDisk (on usbscsi.device)!


    - CISC

    [ Edited by CISC on 2007/5/26 4:00 ]
  • »26.05.07 - 02:59
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  • Cocoon
    Cocoon
    Posts: 48 from 2003/5/13
    CISC : Thank you very much, I have the same needs that GK_LKA and GiggleDisk went out of my memory. I'm jsut going to test it again !
  • »26.05.07 - 15:19
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    magnetic
    Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
    From: Los Angeles
    Cool. I didnt know about Giggle Disk either. Very nice. Lets get a report if it works for you guys please.. :-)

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  • »26.05.07 - 19:21
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    GK_LKA
    Posts: 481 from 2004/3/28
    From: Hungary
    GiggleDisk is exactly what I needed :) Thanks!
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  • »27.05.07 - 16:44
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    TheMagicM
    Posts: 1220 from 2003/6/17
    bringing this one back from the dead...

    giggledisk works great. Mounted a 500GB USB drive without any problems. Now copying all 6000+ MAME roms to my Mac Mini :)
  • »29.12.11 - 20:54
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    boot_wb
    Posts: 874 from 2007/4/9
    From: Kingston upon ...
    @MagicM

    NTFS (read-only) support (via L:NTFS) is included with the OS distribution (since r2.5).

    No need for giggledisk anymore.

    NTFS volumes should mount automagically just under a vanilla install (at least they do here...)

    [ Edited by boot_wb 29.12.2011 - 21:51 ]
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  • »29.12.11 - 21:48
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    Miky060
    Posts: 694 from 2003/2/24
    From: ITALY
    Now you can also write on ntfs disks via NTFS3G (I've written it well?)

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  • »29.12.11 - 22:24
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  • Fab
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    Fab
    Posts: 1331 from 2003/6/16
    Also, if something doesn't mount automatically, Sys:Tools/Mounter can be used.
    And about NTFS, NTFS3g was also ported, which gives write support.
  • »29.12.11 - 22:25
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    TheMagicM
    Posts: 1220 from 2003/6/17
    @Fab

    Thanks for taking the time to reply. You were correct. I tried Mounter and it worked fine. No icon on the desktop. Its mounted read-only. I'll do some research to see what I'm not doing correctly.
  • »29.12.11 - 23:07
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    boot_wb
    Posts: 874 from 2007/4/9
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    @TheMagicM

    Nothing wrong, the included L:NTFS only gives read-only support.

    To get read/write access (with limitations, see the readme) you would need to install Leif's NTFS3G and filesysbox.

    Regards



    Rich

    [ Edited by boot_wb 29.12.2011 - 23:13 ]
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  • »29.12.11 - 23:12
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    TheMagicM
    Posts: 1220 from 2003/6/17
    Cool... I'll try it after I fix my system... somehow I inadvertently hosed it.
  • »30.12.11 - 01:58
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