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 <PoMec(a)PoMec.Net>
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
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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" <PoMec(a)PoMec.Net>
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> 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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