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Screw it, I’m installing Linux (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 17 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Eh? I've never had a problem with reading NTFS drives in linux, including USB sticks and SATA/USB adapters. Are you just wanting to read them or use them as read/write? Write is a bit more tricky, requiring ntfs-3g, but most reasonable distros come with that nowadays.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Read/Write and linux will disconnect them randomly and they show up as a completely different drive. So i tried to permanently mount the UID in fstab, but still didn't work. Most of the fixes i've found online don't work for my drives.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    I had the same problem with USB docks. The filesystem didn't matter. Without going into much detail, the solution is to use the usb-storage driver with quirks enabled instead of the uas driver. I blacklisted uas to force usb-storage on the affected devices. Some googling should turn up decent instructions.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Interesting. When you say that they show up as a different drive completely, do you mean that their UUIDs change, or that they get mounted at a different point?

    Anyway, random disconnection sounds like a hardware issue, maybe a USB brownout, as much as anything else. What’s your connection setup, distro and kernel version?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    The mounting point changes. So it may be sd1, then disconnect and show up as sb1 and then i tried to permanently mount through fstab, but still didn't work. Connection setup? Not sure what you mean by that, but computer is hardwired to the network, external drive was connected via USB 3.0 in several different ports to see if it was a motherboard issue. I am on Cinnamon Mint 22 and i believe kernel 6.14.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    The dev entry point changing like that means that it disconnected and then reconnected, which shouldn’t have anything to do with the specific file system on the drive. That really makes it sound like the drive isn’t getting quite enough power, which causes a brown out, which Linux detects as the drive getting unplugged and coming back, which is why it gets a new dev entry.

    A look through the usb logs by using something like usbrip would confirm that.

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