On 09/03/07, Robert Jelf <bob.jelf@???> wrote:
>
> I have a new computer with an Asus A8N32-SLI DeLuxe motherboard, with an
> AMD
> Athlon 64 Processor 3500+, ATI Radion X1800 series graphics card, TV card,
> Creative X-Fi Fatality sound card, 200GB and 250GB SATA hard drives, DVD
> writer and DVDrom for various reasons the 250GB drive has 2 NTFS volumes
> on
> it. The 200GB drive is in a swappable caddie.
>
> I have tried various distro's but none cane read and write to the NTFS
> drives. The distro'e that I have tried are Open SUSE 10.1, Mandriva 10.1,
> Slackware 11.0, Desktop BSD 1 AMD64, Fedora Core 6 - 64, SimplyMepis 6.0and
> Knoppix 5.1.1.
>
To read and write to the NTFS partitions mount the drives as type ntfs-3g
rather that ntfs :)
See the following for an example (for Ubuntu):
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy#How_to_mount_Windows_partitions_.28NTFS.29_on_boot-up.2C_and_allow_users_read_and_write_access
John
