[ale] expansion drive

[Jim Kinney]

In order for Linux systems to recognize and mount a drive, it needs to be a
format type that's known to the running kernel. You need to either format
the drive as fat32 or install ntfs tools on your Linux system. Mkfs -t ntfs
will not make a working partition for several versions of ntfs tools.
On Oct 21, 2011 12:05 PM, "zeb" <n4zm at mindspring.com> wrote:

> All:
>    I have a Seagate portable expansion drive that is not recognized by
> Slackware Linux 12.2 (or Windows 98 SE, XP, or 7).  The drive is seen
> during Linux boot, but it cannot be mounted.
>    The drive originally was formatted as NTFS.  I formatted it as ext2
> and was able to mount it.  I then formatted it as NTFS (using mkfs -t
> ntfs), and that's when the fun (or trouble) began.  I wrote Seagate a
> week ago, but they have not replied.  Their web  site  says they do not
> support Linux.
>    Anybody have any thoughts as to how I can revive this paperweight?
>
> Thanks, and regards....Zeb
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