External Hard disk copying issue

[fmvaz]

Hi,

I connected a 250 Gb western digital HD tot the USB port of Bubba2. Works fine, after clicking "connect" under disk in administration it nicely shows up in storage/extern/wd.... However, when trying to copy data from this drive to bubba I get an error (see attached image). This message keeps on appearing and makes it useless, no data can be copied (the drive can be browsed fine though).

I suspect this is a permissions issue but I do not know how to change/configure these in linux.

Note: Connecting the drive directly to the computer is flawless...

My OS is windows 7 ultimate.

Help/suggestions are appreciated!!!

[jonte]

Hi,

I connected a 250 Gb western digital HD tot the USB port of Bubba2.

Could it be an NTFS-formatted harddrive?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know The Bubba2 only has read-support for NTFS-harddrives. Although there is a NTFS read/write driver for Linux called NTFS-3G which works in my B2.

Check it out.

//J

[fmvaz]

Hi!
Thanks for the reply.
This error occurs even when I try to copy data from the external HD to bubba. That should work even if the drive is read-only. I'll check the format (but believe it is FAT32) and try other stuff....
F.

[fmvaz]

OK solved the issue. Indeed it was NTFS! I reformated (using bubba's format option) and backup has been started... Trivial sometimes...

[jonte]

OK solved the issue.

Great!

Note that Windows on the other hand doesn't have native support for EXT-volumes, if you plan to use the USB-harddrive in Windows that is. I use a driver/program called "EXT2 Volume Manager" to read/write to my EXT-formatted USB-harddrive in Windows. Just a tip

//Jonte

[fmvaz]

Thanks for the tip jonte. The main reason for the external HD now is as a backup medium for my bubba2/bubba storage combination. But when windows 7 is supported by Ext2Fsd, i'll give it a try!
/F.