Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread David Wright
On Mon 02 Dec 2019 at 16:32:39 (+0300), Reco wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 07:28:41AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 02 Dec 2019 at 05:50:29 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Monday, December 02, 2019 04:51:01 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > I have since discovered that they are

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/12/2019 à 22:28, Gene Heskett a écrit : On Monday 02 December 2019 16:02:59 Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 02/12/2019 à 02:30, Gene Heskett a écrit : What I did was plug the u-sd into a card reader/writer. The card wasn't recognized and dd refused to write to it. What do you mean *precisel

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 December 2019 16:02:59 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 02/12/2019 à 02:30, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > What I did was plug the u-sd into a card reader/writer. > > > > The card wasn't recognized and dd refused to write to it. > > What do you mean *precisely* by "wasn't recognized" ? > Ack d

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/12/2019 à 02:30, Gene Heskett a écrit : What I did was plug the u-sd into a card reader/writer. The card wasn't recognized and dd refused to write to it. What do you mean *precisely* by "wasn't recognized" ? Then someone said I need to install exfat, Bullshit. dd does not care about

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 December 2019 10:43:49 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 02 dec 19, 05:35:33, Mark Allums wrote: > > exfat support is not necessary in the card reader. All readers > > support exfat if they support the size of sd/microsd card that comes > > preformatted to exfat. You need filesystem su

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 dec 19, 05:35:33, Mark Allums wrote: > > exfat support is not necessary in the card reader. All readers support > exfat if they support the size of sd/microsd card that comes preformatted to > exfat. You need filesystem support in your OS of choice. That is all. Just in case it's not

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread John Hasler
rhkramer writes: > Well, plus some specialty electronic component houses -- I think James > is gone... Jameco is still going strong. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: How to find manpages (Was: Re: external drive)

2019-12-02 Thread songbird
Linux-Fan wrote: ... > Just as a side note (I saw that the mapages have been found later in the > thread by going online): You can also search manpages by using the `apropos` > command (part of the man-db package) like this: > > $ apropos exfat > dumpexfat (8)- dump exFAT file s

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 December 2019 08:28:41 David Wright wrote: > On Mon 02 Dec 2019 at 05:50:29 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, December 02, 2019 04:51:01 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I have since discovered that they are already installed on this > > > stretch install, but man pages se

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 December 2019 06:35:33 Mark Allums wrote: > On 12/2/19 4:57 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, December 02, 2019 05:11:41 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Monday 02 December 2019 04:40:28 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >>> Try a different (known good) reader and/or system. > >> > >>

How to find manpages (Was: Re: external drive)

2019-12-02 Thread Linux-Fan
Gene Heskett writes: On Monday 02 December 2019 03:09:57 Frank Weißer wrote: > Hi Gene,Gene Heskett: > > Just for S&G: > > gene@coyote:~$ sudo apt install exfat > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > E: Unable to locate package e

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 December 2019 05:57:34 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, December 02, 2019 05:11:41 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 02 December 2019 04:40:28 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Try a different (known good) reader and/or system. > > > > I'll look for one that claims exfat support. B

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 09:01:36AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I found: > > > > https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/8-mount.exfat-fuse/ > > I did find this one, and it looks simple enough. Unprintable because of > all the advertising screwing up the manpage formatting. Looks as if its

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 December 2019 05:50:29 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, December 02, 2019 04:51:01 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have since discovered that they are already installed on this > > stretch install, but man pages seem to be on missing list. Example: > > gene@coyote:~$ man exfat-fuse

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 07:28:41AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 02 Dec 2019 at 05:50:29 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, December 02, 2019 04:51:01 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I have since discovered that they are already installed on this stretch > > > install

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread David Wright
On Mon 02 Dec 2019 at 05:50:29 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, December 02, 2019 04:51:01 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have since discovered that they are already installed on this stretch > > install, but man pages seem to be on missing list. Example: > > gene@coyote:~$ man exfat-f

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/2/19 4:57 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, December 02, 2019 05:11:41 AM Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 02 December 2019 04:40:28 Andrei POPESCU wrote: Try a different (known good) reader and/or system. I'll look for one that claims exfat support. But I'm out in the puckerbrush s

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, December 02, 2019 05:11:41 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 02 December 2019 04:40:28 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Try a different (known good) reader and/or system. > > I'll look for one that claims exfat support. But I'm out in the > puckerbrush so if staples or wally's doesn't carry i

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, December 02, 2019 04:51:01 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > I have since discovered that they are already installed on this stretch > install, but man pages seem to be on missing list. Example: > gene@coyote:~$ man exfat-fuse > No manual entry for exfat-fuse > gene@coyote:~$ man exfat-utils > No

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 December 2019 04:40:28 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 01 dec 19, 20:30:31, Gene Heskett wrote: > > What I did was plug the u-sd into a card reader/writer. > > > > The card wasn't recognized and dd refused to write to it. > > Regardless of exFat, if the system (hardware + kernel) doesn

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 December 2019 03:09:57 Frank Weißer wrote: > Hi Gene,Gene Heskett: > > Just for S&G: > > gene@coyote:~$ sudo apt install exfat > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > E: Unable to locate package exfat > > has to be > ~$

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 01 dec 19, 20:30:31, Gene Heskett wrote: > > What I did was plug the u-sd into a card reader/writer. > > The card wasn't recognized and dd refused to write to it. Regardless of exFat, if the system (hardware + kernel) doesn't recognize there is card in your system you won't be able to do

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, December 02, 2019 03:09:57 AM Frank Weißer wrote: > Hi Gene,Gene Heskett: > > Just for S&G: > > gene@coyote:~$ sudo apt install exfat > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > E: Unable to locate package exfat > > has to be

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Frank Weißer
Hi Gene,Gene Heskett: Just for S&G: gene@coyote:~$ sudo apt install exfat Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package exfat has to be ~$ sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils readU Frank

Re: external drive

2019-12-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 29 November 2019 12:04:37 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 13:25:38 + > > Łukasz Kruk wrote: > > I have an external drive formatted to exFAT. > > > > I cannot access it? > > What do you mean when you say you can't access it? You cannot mount > it? You cannot fsck it? It d

Re: external drive

2019-11-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 13:25:38 + Łukasz Kruk wrote: > I have an external drive formatted to exFAT. > > I cannot access it? What do you mean when you say you can't access it? You cannot mount it? You cannot fsck it? It doesn't show up in fdisk or sfdisk? What exactly are you doing and what ex

Re: external drive

2019-11-29 Thread Mark Allums
Install exfat support. apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils Mark On 11/29/2019 7:25 AM, Łukasz Kruk wrote: Hi there, I have an external drive formatted to exFAT. I cannot access it? Can you please assist? Kind regards, L. Kruk.

Re: external drive

2019-11-29 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 13:25:38 +, Łukasz Kruk wrote: > > I have an external drive formatted to exFAT. > > I cannot access it? > virgo@dragon:~$ apt search exfat Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done exfat-fuse/stable 1.3.0-1 i386 read and write exFAT driver for FUSE -- Virgo Pärna virgo.

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Monte Milanuk: > > I'm somewhat inclined to go with option 'C': an HP Proliant > Microserver N36L - comes without OS (certified for RHEL5), 1GB ECC > memory + 160gb SATA drive. Move the OEM drive to the optical drive > bay, stuff the four HDD bays with 2TB drives and call it a day. A > little m

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote: > On 1/19/11 10:23 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I'm somewhat inclined to go with option 'C': an HP Proliant > Microserver N36L - comes without OS (certified for RHEL5), 1GB ECC > memory + 160gb SATA drive. Move the OEM drive to the optical dri

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-20 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 1/19/11 10:23 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: You're talking about 8TB of raw data. How much is all that data worth to you? Depends. 8TB of disks, but using raid 5 I figured it was more like 6 TB of data. Some of that is movies, music, tv episodes etc. (back up of iTunes librari

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote: > 4-bay enclosure w/ eSATA card + cable:$130 > Hitachi 2TB SATA HDD ($120x4):$480 > > Grand total: $610 > > vs... > 4-bay enclosure: $279 > Areca 1300x4 card + cable:$197 >

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-18 Thread Monte Milanuk
Okay... since this is not something I can go to the local office supply store (around here its either that or mail order) and pick up and look at it and see that tab A goes in slot B (i.e. how things physically fit/work together)... how exactly would I set this up, and what would I need? Lets

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:32:51 -0800, Monte Milanuk wrote: (...) > My big question is... most of these external drive boxes seem to claim > support for JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, etc. - should I presume that is > simply fake RAID like many commodity mobos have, and not really usable > in Linux? In tha

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > And "most expensive enterprise-grade equipment" doesn't describe a small > SAS jbod enclosure and a SAS HBA. You can probably get both for well > below US$ 1k, and you can populate it with SATA disks just fine. It is really well bellow US$

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote: > On 1/17/11 5:57 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote: > >>My big question is... most of these external drive boxes seem to > >>claim support for JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, etc. - should I presume > >>that is simp

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-18 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 1/17/11 5:57 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote: My big question is... most of these external drive boxes seem to claim support for JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, etc. - should I presume that is simply fake RAID like many commodity mobos have, and not E

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote: > My big question is... most of these external drive boxes seem to > claim support for JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, etc. - should I presume > that is simply fake RAID like many commodity mobos have, and not Either that, or worse: data-eating crap like many low-

Re: external drive as partial mirror

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Preston Boyington: > I have been given an external drive and was wondering if there would be > a problem with my making it a partial mirror. Does the mirror require > any particular permissions or can I leave the drive Fat32? I think there are ways to mount a Fat32 with any given UID, p