There is an exFat driver in fuse.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > WD ships the drive formated as exFAT, which will not mount on fedora. > > Reformat as NTFS and fedora will mount the drive. > Beware that default while formating an option external drive in winodws 10 > seemed to be exFAT. > > I just went through this with a 4TB drive. > > Barry > > > > On 19 Nov 2016, at 01:02, Gregory P. Ennis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Everyone, > > > > Thank you all for your help. I had to put my problem on hold until I > > had time to digest all you advice. I almost got a sledge hammer out, > > but restrained myself. > > > > The problem turned out to be related to the using the front usb ports > > instead of the usb ports on the back of the machine as well as the > > cable I was using. Once I had a good cable and used the ports on the > > back of the machine (directly into the mother board), everything worked > > automatically and perfect. > > > > Thanks again for all of your help !!!!! > > > > Greg > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------- > > Don't know if it would make a difference, but are you plugging it into > > a USB3 > > port? My lab got new machines about a year and half ago, and I knew > > machines had USB 3 ports, so I hooked up a 1.5TB usb disk, and got > > very > > slow results. Turned out that only 2 of the 6 USB ports are USB 3, > > others are > > only USB 2. Don't know if there would be a difference in the size of > > disk > > supported by USB 2 versus USB 3. > > > > > > On 30 Oct 2016 at 15:15, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > > Subject: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem > > From: "Gregory P. Ennis" <[email protected]> > > To: Fedora Users List <[email protected] > > g> > > Date sent: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 15:15:26 -0500 > > Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users > > <[email protected]> > > > >> > >> Everyone, > >> > >> I just purchased 3 WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drives that I had > >> hoped > >> to use for archive files for some digital images. > >> > >> Looks like WD has made it difficult to use for Linux. The google > >> searches that I did stepped me through mounting it on a Windows 10 > >> system and then formatting it with nts. Unfortuantely, when I tried > >> to > >> connect it to Fedora 24 I am still not able to recognize it to mount > >> it. All of the /dev/sd* entries were the same before and after I > >> plugged it in. Smartmontools appears to recognize it when it is > >> plugged in a usb port, but pauses and does not finish its execution > >> to > >> completion. gparted scans all devices and does not finish when the > >> drive is plugged in a usb port. > >> > >> Has anyone in the group figured out how to use these drives? > >> > >> Thanks for you help!!!! > >> > >> Greg Ennis > >> _______________________________________________ > >> users mailing list -- [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > > > > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor > > Guam Community College Computer Center > > mailto:[email protected] > > mailto:[email protected] > > Guam - Where America's Day Begins > > G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ > > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) > > Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 > > Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes > > (Total Hours: 287,489) > > > > BOINC@HOME CREDITS > > ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 118093151.288695 > > ROSETTA 51279764.747103 | SETI 94372974.067749 > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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