hi there, I have been using my AivX DVP270A by Sarotech for years with my PC. Now I have switched to Mac and when I plug the usb to my Mac, it shows all files and folders of the AivX (as it was a normal external harddrive) but it does not let me modify anything. I right clicked on the hardware and it showed that my AivX was configured for Win NT and I don't have permission to modify anything on it. So basically I can't use the AivX at all (that is: I can plug it to my TV and see all that I have from when I was using PC, but I can't put new things into it or delete my old stuff). I have contacted Sarotech but they did not reply. I was thinking to back up my AivX and then format it with Mac, but I am not sure if after formatting it I will be able to use it again from my TV. Shall I create a partition instead, with ipartition, and move all my datas there? Please help! thanks Claudio
It sounds to me like your drive is formatted NTFS. Mac OS can read these drives but CANNOT write to them. It is something that comes from the UNIX underpinnings, it's hard to get a NTFS drive working properly in Linux as well. I haven't tried this so use at your own risk: http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/NTFS-3G.shtml Let us know if that worked for you!
hi akaangus, you are right, it has been configured in NTFS. i don't feel quite comfortable in using the below, because if the hard drive configuration fails i will probably risk to lose the 250 gigs of things I have in my HD, right? I was thinking to do the following: back up all the files first and then format the HD with my Mac, so that I can avoid the problem. Question: do you think that my Mac will allow me to process a format on the HD, if it does not even allow me to move files? And, by the way, since I am a newbie in Mac, how do you format an HD in Mac?? thanks a lot for help! Claudio
hey, i have tried installing the application recommended below, but it looks like you need to have linux to operate it. my knowledge is very limited, but I copy here the readme file, so you can confirm if i need linux to use this. if my understanding is correct, this does not solve my problem, since i have no linux and I am not capable of using it. _____________________________________________ QUICK INSTALLATION ================== Make sure you have the basic Linux development tools and the full FUSE package (http://fuse.sourceforge.net) is already installed correctly on the computer. Then type: ./configure make make install # or 'sudo make install' if you aren't root. USAGE ===== If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume can be read-write mounted for everybody the following way (unmount the volume if it was already mounted, and replace /dev/hda1 and /mnt/windows, if needed): mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows or ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows If your Operating System vendor didn't setup your language specific settings then you may also need to set the 'locale' mount option to make all filenames with national characters visible. Replace the below en_US.UTF-8 with the appropriate setting. You can find more information about his topic at http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#locale mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o locale=en_US.UTF-8 Please see the ntfs-3g manual page for more options and examples. You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by putting the below line at the __END__ of the /etc/fstab file: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 _________________________________________________ what do you think of the format option?? thanks Claudio
You should be able to run those commands in the Terminal. You can run most Linux apps in X11 on Mac, so this is probably using the same codebase. You can get MacFUSE at http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ If you want, I can try this myself but I probably won't get around to it for a few days because my work schedule is pretty ridiculous. I have a couple of random externals around I can format NTFS and give a try. At least we know what the problem is
very complicated!!! this is what I have done. I have connected my Aivx. I have saved the folder for ntfs-3g on my desktop. i have run Terminal, cd desktop, cd ntfs-3g. then i have written ./configure, as per instructions. it gives me an error "a correct C compiler could not be found on $Path". are you sure it is checking the NTFS of my Aivx and not working on my Mac instead? How do I specify the correct path? This is too technical for me, what do you think of the backup and format option??? thanks, i truly appreciate your help! Cla
hi all, I have read everything on the subject and everybody seemed pretty happy on the web. in particular, there is a really useful tutorial on this forum for ubuntu: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009 after reading the tutorial, i have digged the web and found somewhere an already pre-compiled version of NTFS-3G V. 1.417, which included the Mac FUSE tools. I had already pre-installed the MacFUSE core. It worked and I have managed to install 3G. The tutorial says that for external HDD you only need to plug in and everything is automatic. This is true: 3G converted automatically my NTFS file and for this reason the volume resulted impossible to mount! Then I have used Disk Utility and I have checked the HDD: everything was OK and it showed as a file system "Windows NTFS 3G". But when I tried to mount it, I got a failure. I had to "repair" the disk, via DU and this brought back the NTFS file to the original one, so now my problem is still to be solved. Any advise? Thanks Claudio
