ok this is driving me nuts, I have set up my old shuttle as a general server with use of a SATA PCI card. Anyway, i dumped my old seagate 1TB in there and before doing so copied everything off it onto my new samsung F3 1TB so i could erase the partitions and have a single volume. All going well so far. cleared the seagate off and ready for the transfer back on to the drive, everything goes well. Disconnect the sammy F3 after a shut down, and everytime time i boot into the OS its unable to mount the seagate. error message incomplete multi-sector transfer. this is mad and driving me nuts to the point i am considering running XP again! I understand running the drive as a NTFS file system is most likely half the problem, but if the shuttle goes down, at least i can use windows to get to my stuff.
Yeah i have to agree, looks like you might be hitting a bug with the NTFS code. If I'm honest, I don't think it's worth the time you'll need to spend to try and identify a workaround. That's because I really really wouldn't recommend running like this at all, i.e. NTFS for sustained production use under Linux. I see the NTFS support as a "get out of jail free card" that can be used occasionally for transferring large amounts of data between Linux and windows boxes. That's just my personal take though, and I'm sure for every person like me, there's another who advocates using Linux NTFS on production systems. Fire Windows XP on the box if that's what you're most comfortable with. NTFS is a top notch file system when used with the Windows OS. Alternatively go for a mainstream Linux file system like ext3 (good chances of data recovery if the drive ever gives up the ghost). Hope it helps, Craig
oddly i had the same problem with it being set as either ext2,3 or 4 after the format ubuntu refused out right to do access it. well it openned and showed a folder called lost+found ~40GB, couldn't open it or do anything, so i re-formated it. I even tried installing the lastest release directly onto the drive but it failed to boot, i suspect it was the build at fault so i shall try 9.04 (stable for me) tomorrow evening. This has really pissed me off sorting this out, everything had been going great until this. the driver support for my printer is a little hit and miss as well, sometimes mid printing it will tell me my printer has no paper when clearly there is, but the button on the printer you press after loading fresh paper dosen't seem to effect it one bit. This is a shame, i had been loving ubuntu in this roll. perfect light weight and stable no pissing around with drivers, just give it net access and it sorts it self. computing as it should be!
when in via root and still got told to bugger off. However when i tried to copy anything to the free space on the drive it disallowed it. most miffed! I have since formated everything including the Ubuntu install, to start a fresh later when i am in the mood. Might go for XP...
