Mounting external firewire hard drive in redhat?

[touser]

Hi all, i have an external 60gb firewire hard drive formatted with the NTFS file system which has my whole mp3 collection on it. My question is, how would i mount this drive for read only support as i know write support for NTFS is very flakey in linux and i cannot afford to lose the data on this drive. I am running redhat 7.3 with the KDE 3.0 desktop and i am a complete newb so if anyone could please tell me if this is possible and how to do this in newb instructions it would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks in advance!

 

[touser]

Bump! anyone?? please.

 

[drag]

Nobody using linux here probably knows much about Firewire. USB is used mostly, however I would a good website that may help you. It's all about linux and firewire.

LINK LINK LINK!!!

 

[TonyRic]

drag, are you nuts? I use mostly firewire storage devices. USB for storage sux. USB 2.0 still too new.


touser: Just mount the device to a mount point.

I just noticed you are using RedHat, you will need to compile the ntfs (read only) support kernel module.

Read the FAQ on compiling your kernel (you do not need to compile the whole thing) and the module will autoload for you when you mount the drive. Works fine and I would recommend that you move all those files off and convert the drive to FAT32 so you can read/write in both OS'. That's how I do it and it works great. Maxtor 80GB external and HP DVD+RW Drives both in external Firewire Chassis. Still working on getting my DV Camera working. I get that and the DVD Writing (-R works in Linux and +r/+rw is still too young) working and Windows can go bye-bye.

Feel free to ask more questions and do not take the first "These guys probably don't know it" that you get here.

EDIT: At the top of the forums list is a Linux FAQ thread and it will help you out alot.