On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:26:22AM -0500, Jima wrote: > But from pure source! The kernel-source RedHat provides has a broken > NTFS module. Attempting any I/O (including a directory listing) on the > NTFS volume will result in a hard system lock. I learned this the > annoying way this week. I didn't feel like compiling a kernel *again*, so > I just did a quick Mandrake install on a spare drive and that worked fine. > In this case I was attempting to recover data from a hosed NTFS drive. > It wouldn't boot, another Win2K box couldn't read it (said the drive was > unformatted -- uh-oh!), but linux-ntfs got the data back. > > URL explaining the RedHat/NTFS problem: > > http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/index.html#3.13 If you didn't run old redhat versions, and refuse to upgrade, you wouldn't have these problems. "apt-get dist-upgrade" would have been a lot faster than installing mandrake, and spreading FUD (even with a url that points out that this was with 2.4.9-*) is bad, even if you aren't microsoft. > > Hope this saves people some time. ;) > > Jima -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203