Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] NTFS Drive Can't Be Read/Mounted in 2.6 Kernel

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

Hi,

On 3 Apr 2007, at 10:02, Fresh Fish wrote:
> Hi there! This is fishda from the linux ntfs forums and attached is  
> the dmesg of my 2.6 kernel.
> If you're wondering here's a link to my post in which you've replied:
> http://forum.linux-ntfs.org/viewtopic.php?t=642
>
> The drive is really a NTFS one. It's been read in the 2.4 kernel  
> and in windows xp.
>
> I hope you can help me because it's been a long time problem and  
> I'd really like to access my files.

Your dmesg output shows that your hdb disk uses the OnTrackDisk  
Manager on the disk.  2.6 kernels do not support this kind of disk  
manager any more automatically.

According to the Large disk howto (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/ 
Large-Disk-HOWTO/#s8) you need to boot with the "hda=remap63" option  
added to your kernel command line to get your disk to work.

This is nothing to do with the NTFS driver but with the kernel's  
support for your disk...

Best regards,

	Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/