So I have bought this new 2TB hard drive which is mainly meant to be used as Storage for photos and documents.
Now, I want to share the disk between my Mac, Amiga's and possibly use it as NAS (my router can be configured to share a disk once it's connected to its USB port)
Since some files (VMWare files) are possibly going to exceed the 4gb size, FAT32 is not so welcome. I could however split some files and use a sparse bundle image.
The only other possibility I see, is to use EXT2, in order to have read/write access to my data on every system.
I know there is an NTFS filesystem "driver" on Aminet, but it has no write support. On mac there is the same problem unless I buy the commercial NTFS driver (I was not able to make the NTFS-3G filesystem work with MacFuse).
That said, I partitioned the drive with ubuntu an created one single big EXT2-partition. My Router can see it, as does my Mac, but i'm not able to mount it on OS4.
USB-masstorage-Device tries to mount it but there seems no way to add a filesystem.
I got ext2 from aminet, Created a mountlist, but it tells me USBx is already mounted. (no mountlist in Devs: nor in Devs:DOSDrivers.
Any idea? Or should I reformat and repartition the drive? But I dislike to have 2 or more partitions because I can not predict which partitions will grow more.
maybe I am wrong, but if you connect your HD to a router, then it will be handled as some sort of "Network Share" or "FTP mount".... ? Or Am I wrong ? If so, you need Samba or FTPmount on AmigaOS, but once again maybe you have got another config ?
I never tried to configure a USB-(external)HD with ext2, I only did a partition of my internal one. This is my mountlist:
I got ext2 from aminet, Created a mountlist, but it tells me USBx is already mounted. (no mountlist in Devs: nor in Devs:DOSDrivers.
The USBx mountfiles are created and automounted on-the-fly by the usb-stack. If you want to use another filesystem you need to dismount USBx that was created by the usb-stack using the DISMOUNT command.
BTW: My system is unstable after dismounting USBx -> make some tests before you store something important on the harddisk.
Neither EXT2FileSystem nor NTFileSystem on Aminet has large file support AFAIK. In order for a filesystem to have working large file support it needs to support the new 64-bit dos packets introduced in AmigaOS 4.x dos.library.
You may consider usinf eSATA instead of USB for the connection. Would be much faster on Amiga. You can get SATA -> eSATA connectors slots for nearly nothing on ebay & co.
serpi wrote: You may consider usinf eSATA instead of USB for the connection. Would be much faster on Amiga. You can get SATA -> eSATA connectors slots for nearly nothing on ebay & co.
Ciao, Alfred
Yes, thank you for the tip, I have considered this too; in fact i'm reading reviews of eSATA/USB/LAN and eSATA/USB/FireWire boxes.
Maybe someone here is already gone through the process and can recommend an external HardDrive-case?
Neither EXT2FileSystem nor NTFileSystem on Aminet has large file support AFAIK. In order for a filesystem to have working large file support it needs to support the new 64-bit dos packets introduced in AmigaOS 4.x dos.library.
I don't mind to access large files from OS4.1 Those large files are VM hardfiles, I guess it will be ok if I leave them alone when I connect the HD directly to the Amiga.
I don't think it matters how you connect the drive to the Amiga (USB, SATA or PATA), you will still need a filesystem to support the content. Until there is an up-to-date filesystem for EXT2 (or any of the others), you can't process I/O properly with a direct connection.
Your only recourse at the moment is the remote connection via FTP to the server.
I don't think it matters how you connect the drive to the Amiga (USB, SATA or PATA), you will still need a filesystem to support the content. Until there is an up-to-date filesystem for EXT2 (or any of the others), you can't process I/O properly with a direct connection.
Your only recourse at the moment is the remote connection via FTP to the server.
So getting a drive case with LAN seems the best solution, I could connect and access to the files through the integrated FTP/Samba server.
Buy a QNAP NAS station and throw the 2Tb drive in there.
Best thing I've ever bought;
Sounds interesting. Which one did you get? Link? Price?
Best regards,
Niels
the link is in his post, just hover over the Case name, or HERE
@Slash
nice case! Thanks for the tip! I've found a similar model QNAP TS 119p+ which seems to have better specs and be less power hungry. In worse case scenario do you know if it's possible to configure the server with a webrowser; Or is there a need for some proprietary software which works only on some OS?
Regarding EXT2 or NTFS: in order to do a thorough port, you would have to be familiar with the FS you were porting - that means being a Windows dev or a Linux expert. It's a bit outside my experience, I'm afraid.
In any case, I prefer to transfer at a higher level, eg FTP or SMBFS.
the link is in his post, just hover over the Case name, or HERE
Ah, right - sorry, I wasn't using my normal system/browser, so I didn't notice the link (it's almost indistinguishible from normal text here in FF4 on my wife's Win7 laptop).