FS#15368 - [ntfs-3g] Cannot mount large external harddrive

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by acrowl (acrowl) - Saturday, 04 July 2009, 14:14 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 09:38 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When I try to mount my ~500GB Western Digital external hard drive, I get the error. (GNOME)
"Cannot get volume.fstype.alternative"
Here is dmesg output:
sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
usb 7-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 7-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 27
usb 7-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 7-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 7-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 28
usb 7-2: device not accepting address 28, error -71
usb 7-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 29
usb 7-2: device not accepting address 29, error -71
hub 7-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2


When I mount it manually using ntfs-3g it mounts without a problem
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 09:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in ntfs-3g 2009.4.4-2.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 04 July 2009, 15:07 GMT
Can you drop this file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/ and delete the 20-ntfs-config-write-policy.fdi file that is there? It should fix the problem I think. This is what Ubuntu uses in their ntfs3g package to solve this problem.
Comment by acrowl (acrowl) - Saturday, 04 July 2009, 15:28 GMT
Sorry that didn't work
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 04 July 2009, 16:54 GMT
I think you might want to re-plug your harddisk or restart hal with this new fdi file.
Comment by acrowl (acrowl) - Saturday, 04 July 2009, 16:55 GMT
Tried that as well.I will probably reinstall it tomorrow
Comment by acrowl (acrowl) - Saturday, 04 July 2009, 19:47 GMT
After a reinstall it works using this file.THANK YOU
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 05:05 GMT
do we want to make this the default Jan or stay with upstream?

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