On 10/30/2016 04:15 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
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
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I cannot speak for everyone else, but I've purchased WD external HDD's.
And I've always just used the "Disks" utility to format-then-re-format
them to FAT. Which is easiest when going from ext4 to NTFS and back
again. It might take an extremely long time (depending on the speed of
your machine) but it's do-able....and makes life a bit less painful in
the long run....as FAT32 is recognized "globally" (In the world of IT
and computers that is!!) HTH.
EGO II