Re: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem (Problem Solved)

2016-12-22 Thread Corey W Sheldon
Barry, Also if that Fedora install has the rpmfusion repos (both free and nonfree) enabled then exfat is no longer an issue.. install the needed bits with: 'sudo dnf install exfat-utils fuse-exfat -y' If you lack the rpmfusion repos run this command FIRST: 'dnf install https://download1.rpmfus

Re: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem (Problem Solved)

2016-12-21 Thread Terry Polzin
There is an exFat driver in fuse. On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Barry wrote: > WD ships the drive formated as exFAT, which will not mount on fedora. > > Reformat as NTFS and fedora will mount the drive. > Beware that default while formating an option external drive in winodws 10 > seemed to

Re: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem (Problem Solved)

2016-12-21 Thread Barry
WD ships the drive formated as exFAT, which will not mount on fedora. Reformat as NTFS and fedora will mount the drive. Beware that default while formating an option external drive in winodws 10 seemed to be exFAT. I just went through this with a 4TB drive. Barry > On 19 Nov 2016, at 01:02, G

Re: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem (Problem Solved)

2016-11-18 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, Thank you all for your help.  I had to put my problem on hold until I had time to digest all you advice.  I almost got a sledge hammer out, but restrained myself. The problem turned out to be related to the using the front usb ports instead of the usb ports on the back of the machine as