[plug] MP3s on a NTFS not working out

[Quintin Lette]

I have a windows 2000 NTFS partition (actually separate disk) on my system now 
due to some subjects at Uni requiring windows :-( so I searched to see if I 
could find any mp3s on it. (find worked wonders)

Under debian sid I did:

modprobe aic7xxx # installing the module for the scsi controller that the 
windows disk resides on.

mkdir /mnt/windows
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows/

find /mnt/windows/ -iname "*.mp3" -print # my mp3s are all on my home 
fileserver (so I can share with all my boxen)

mpg123 "/mnt/windows/Program Files/Winamp/demo.mp3"

and it just worked ;-)

I assume you tried:

modprobe ntfs? (I didn't do that)

Regards 
Quintin

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:50 am, Weirdo wrote:
> Hi, I have approx 9Gb of MP3s on an NTFS partition. I can easily convert it
> to FAT32 if I wanted to but I prefer NTFS[1] for use under Windows and for
> protection against other idiots using my computer. Under Linux I can play
> the Mp3s fine directly off the Disk using freeamp, XMMS and other lovely
> GUI based apps. I WANT MY CONSOLE APPS! mpg321 and mpg123 both fail to play
> the files off NTFS. If I move them to ext2/3 or FAT it works fine. The
> error I get is device not found (i spent weeks trying to find out what
> module wasn't loaded, by accident I found out it was the NTFS)
> Can any one tell me why this happens and how I can redeem it without moving
> files?
> Thanks
> Tim
>
> [1] The file security of NTFS (although not as good as ext2/3) means that I
> can lock my MP3s away from other windows users at LANs, It also means their
> is not risk of deletion of files from Linux when I am using Linux as a
> Jukebox and someone accidently gets root as NTFS write support isn't
> compiled into the kernel.
>
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