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Originally Posted by qtx999
i don't think write access with ntfs is working... just use a linux partition (has no file size limitation)... if you need to read that partition in windows, i am using an open source ext2fs driver that works like a champ...
but no go on ntfs, sorry
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I thought a couple of people said they can write to their NTFS formatted external drive.
I guess it isn't too important at the moment - but it will be nice to have eventually.
After I posted, I saw one of your posts in another thread - I saw you simply formatted your external drive with ext2(3?), so a quick google search turned up that ext2fs driver. So I have since formatted my 250gig drive as ext3. Though you lose a bit of space ... I chose a cluster per sector of 4 (using partitionmagic from the pc). I wasn't too sure what options to use, I found a lot of very unspecific information. I even tried to reformat it from linux, using the mke2fs command, but that just made it unmountable (I used the -T largefile4 option). So I reformatted it once more from windows using partitionmagic.
Anyway, I'm good to go now. I'm backing up some large files to it from the BluRay drive, and I'll see how it goes. And then I still have to get vlc working. I also havent checked the sound either - I only have the tos cable hooked up, and on the initial YDL install, the sound test for left, right, center only worked for center and I didn't hear the left or right tone. But the fact that sound came out seemed like a good sign to me .. lol .. but that's not a topic for this thread.
Thanks for the response though.