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From: jamesromeongmail.com on 16 Mar 2010 11:03
I bought a Fantom 2 TB GDP2000EU drive for use on my openSuSE 11.2
eSATA port. But I am having major issues with this. My 1 TB Fantom
drive works perfectly in this eSATA port.
lspci shows
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface
Controller
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA
AHCI Controller
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus
Controller
01:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II
IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev c0)
02:00.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems Device 0630 (rev 01)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce
GTX 285] (rev a1)
05:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 AHCI
Controller (rev 03)
05:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 AHCI
Controller (rev 03)

The drive arrived preformatted, and I wanted to change it to ext4 or
reaserfs, so I plugged it into the eSATA port. All I got was clicking.
So I tried partitioning and formatting the drive, and that failed.

I then put it on windows, and in the eSATA port, it was only
recognized as a 1 TB drive. But USB saw it as 2 TB, so I reformatted
it using NTFS. Then, even on Windows, eSATA still saw the drive as a
raw 1 TB drive. If I split it into 2 1-TB drives, eSATA worked. With
advice from Fantom, I deleted the partitions and converted the drive
to a gpt drive. eSATA then saw it, and could format it as a single
partition, which works on Windows 7. But the drive is still unusable
on 11.2. I think it sees it as an unformatted 1 TB drive again. It
works in the USB port.

Until I solve this, I am using my 1 TB disk on the eSATA port, which
brings up my second question: How do I get this disk to mount
automatically on boot? It appears in Dolphin, but does not mount until
I put in the root password. What is the correct entry in /etc/fstab
for it?

Thanks for the help,
Jim
From: jamm on 17 Mar 2010 15:40
jamesromeongmail.com wrote:

>
> Until I solve this, I am using my 1 TB disk on the eSATA port, which
> brings up my second question: How do I get this disk to mount
> automatically on boot? It appears in Dolphin, but does not mount until
> I put in the root password. What is the correct entry in /etc/fstab
> for it?
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Jim

You can use Yast Partitioner GUI to set it up I think. Be careful in there
though.

As far as doing it by hand, I think it's just a matter of knowing all the
options that you might want. I don't know them off hand. I use the GUI
nowadays.

Re: your 2TB/1TB issue.. i don't know how to help you with that one.
From: jamesromeongmail.com on 18 Mar 2010 09:59
>
> Re: your 2TB/1TB issue.. i don't know how to help you with that one.

Well, I solved the 2 TB issue, at least if I use NTFS. To get the disk
recognized in Windows 7, I had to convert it to a gpt disk, rather
than mft. mft apparently only works up to 2 TB (and I guess not
always). Once the disk was converted, Windows saw it on eSATA and
could format it.

So is there a gpt option in 11.2? Is it meaningful for things other
than NTFS? Am I taking a big hit leaving the disk as an NTFS-3g disk?

And I still need to know the proper entry to mount it in /etc/fstab at
boot time.

Thanks,
Jim
From: jamm on 18 Mar 2010 15:30
jamesromeongmail.com wrote:

> And I still need to know the proper entry to mount it in /etc/fstab at
> boot time.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim

...thats what I was refering to by Yast->Partitioner. Its a GUI that you can
use to setup the mount. Or you could do it by hand. You'll at least need to
know the device name (/dev/sd?).
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