Posts: 1 mount fat32 fs on external firewire drive?

[mr_dale]

i am a new mac user, have some small experiece on linux boxes

i want to read a windows drive that i whacked into a firewire enclosure

os x sees the drive, but not the filesystem

anyhelp would be greatly appreciated

tia

mr_dale

[physicsGuy]

df -k
Jot down the disk#s# (the #s# that is)
sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk#s# /Volumes/(mountpoint; usually volume name)
Enter password when prompted.
Relaunch the finder, if necessary, to see the volumes.
I assume this is FAT or FAT32. Won't work on NTFS, I don't think.

If there is only one partition, I'm surprised you don't see it automatically.

[mr_dale]

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s9 9969024 3556336 6313000 36% /
devfs 95 95 0 100% /dev
fdesc 1 1 0 100% /dev
<volfs> 512 512 0 100% /.vol
automount -fstab [353] 0 0 0 100% /Network/Servers
automount -static [353] 0 0 0 100% /automount

i don't see the firewire device here?

thanks for your response

mr_dale

[jkp23]

Well - I dont know whether Jaguar added NTFS support, but I have had it working in two different systems. Firstly, directly inside a G4 on the IDE chain and secondly inside a firewire enclosure. I had some trouble getting it to mount on the second occasion, but i had forgotton to set the drive to master. Soon as I did it worked fine.

Sounds to me like NTFS is fine!