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I've been so sick of the computer asking me to initialize my NTFS drives, and then having to manually mount them that I finally stumbled into a way to get my NTFS drive on my SATA controller to Automount. Please post on if this worked for you or not.

 

To check my theory:

 

Open up Terminal, and type in

diskutil list

If you see an entry that says "DOS_FAT_16" (since I doubt anyone is running any hard drives that are FAT16 formatted), try manually mounting the drive as a NTFS:

mkdir /Volumes/NTFS
sudo mount_ntfs /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/NTFS
killall Finder

Enter your password when prompted.

 

If you now have a hard drive on your desktop called NTFS that contains all the files from your NTFS drive, then this should work for you.

 

To make it automount:

 

Close TextEdit if it's already open

 

Type into Terminal:

sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit

Enter your password when prompted.

 

This saves you from having to use nano, vi, or some other Terminal-based editor

 

Now navigate on your computer to /System/Library/Extensions, right-click (or ctrl-click) on IOStorageFamily.kext and click on Show Package Contents, then click on Contents, and then drag Info.plist to TextEdit in the dock.

 

Look for a list of Windows partition styles, and replace

<key>0x06</key>
<string>DOS_FAT_16</string>

with

<key>0x06</key>
<string>Windows_NTFS</string>

You should have Windows_NTFS listed twice in a close region.

 

Save your changes and close TextEdit, and then go back to the Terminal window and paste the following:

sudo -s
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorage*
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorage*
rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
reboot

Enter your password when prompted.

 

Now when you reboot, your NTFS drives should show up!

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odumso
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Doesnt seem to work for me, the manual mount works but it doesnt auto mount right :-/ could this be because my drive is on disk1s1 and not disk0s1, I obviously changed it for the manual mount but there wasnt anywhere to change that in the auto mount instructions, please help!!

phoenix3200
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There is no place to get it to work for a specific drive in the automount procedure. One change enable me to get two drives working.

 

As for disk0s1, disk1s1, etc., the numbers will jump around inconsistently, I had the two disks which wouldn't mount in either order, and in any position between disk0s1 and disk3s1. The only way for me to ensure I was mounting the right one was for me to open Disk Utility, identify which of the two non-mounted disks was mine, and then go into Terminal and mount it. That was way too much of a pain.

 

Do me a favor and before your hard drive is manually mounted, type into Terminal

diskutil list

Post here what you get back.

 

P.S. You did reboot, right? I've gotta ask.

odumso
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 /dev/disk0
  #:				   type name			   size	  identifier
  0: FDisk_partition_scheme					*55.9 GB  disk0
  1:		   Windows_NTFS Untitled		   48.0 GB   disk0s1
  2:			  Apple_HFS tiger-x86		  6.0 GB	disk0s2
  3:			  Apple_HFS Storage			1.4 GB	disk0s3
/dev/disk1
  #:				   type name			   size	  identifier
  0: FDisk_partition_scheme					*232.9 GB disk1
  1:		   Windows_NTFS					232.9 GB  disk1s1
*****-computer:~ root#

That is what I get for diskutil list. Yes I did Reboot and im running 10.4.4

Thanks

Odumso

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strip22
strip22
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I get this when i write diskutil list:

 

Last login: Thu Dec 21 20:49:57 on ttyp1

Welcome to Darwin!

michael-damgaards-computer:~ michaeldamgaard$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: type name size identifier

0: GUID_partition_scheme *232.9 GB disk0

1: EFI 200.0 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Apple HD<8 201.0 GB disk0s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data 31.6 GB disk0s3

/dev/disk2

#: type name size identifier

0: Apple_partition_scheme *3.8 GB disk2

1: Apple_partition_map 31.0 KB disk2s1

2: Apple_MDFW 64.0 MB disk2s2

3: Apple_HFS michael Damgaards iPod 3.8 GB disk2s3

/dev/disk3

#: type name size identifier

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *465.8 GB disk3

1: Windows_NTFS LACIE PORSCHE 465.8 GB disk3s1

michael-damgaards-computer:~ michaeldamgaard$ sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit

Password:

 

my info. Plist looks like this:

 

<key>0x01</key>

<string>DOS_FAT_12</string>

<key>0x04</key>

<string>DOS_FAT_16_S</string>

<key>0x06</key>

<string>DOS_FAT_16</string>

<key>0x07</key>

<string>Windows_NTFS</string>

<key>0x0B</key>

<string>DOS_FAT_32</string>

<key>0x0C</key>

<string>Windows_FAT_32</string>

<key>0x0E</key>

<string>Windows_FAT_16</string>

<key>0x14</key>

<string>DOS_FAT_16_S_Hidden</string>

<key>0x16</key>

<string>DOS_FAT_16_Hidden</string>

<key>0x42</key>

<string>Windows_LDM</string>

<key>0x82</key>

<string>Linux_Swap</string>

<key>0x83</key>

<string>Linux</string>

<key>0x8E</key>

<string>Linux_LVM</string>

<key>0xA5</key>

<string>FreeBSD</string>

<key>0xA6</key>

<string>OpenBSD</string>

<key>0xA7</key>

<string>Apple_Rhapsody_UFS</string>

<key>0xA8</key>

<string>Apple_UFS</string>

<key>0xA9</key>

<string>NetBSD</string>

<key>0xAB</key>

<string>Apple_Boot</string>

<key>0xAF</key>

<string>Apple_HFS</string>

<key>0xFD</key>

<string>Linux_RAID</string>

graphic Design
graphic Design
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I use Maxtor 120G SATA with NTFS

But my problem is MAC can not detect my HDD SATA!

Do U know any patch for this?

My system is Intel ICH5R (Mainboard: IK1100 Gigabyte)

Thanks!

 

phoenix3200, can I use your your way to solve my problem?

(Now, If I want Mac to see my SATA HDD, I always have to Disable SATA Raid Function in my BIOS)

Thanks!

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mobyte
mobyte
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hi, under finder, i have this message to erase or eject NTFS disk only if IDE mode is chose in bios..if i chose AHCI, ther is no message...

can you explain me?

another think, that when i erase the disk for osx install, i chose partition disk..because just erase the disk will not start tiger

 

thank you

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Niko75
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I've been so sick of the computer asking me to initialize my NTFS drives, and then having to manually mount them that I finally stumbled into a way to get my NTFS drive on my SATA controller to Automount. Please post on if this worked for you or not.

 

To check my theory:

 

Open up Terminal, and type in

diskutil list

If you see an entry that says "DOS_FAT_16" (since I doubt anyone is running any hard drives that are FAT16 formatted), try manually mounting the drive as a NTFS:

mkdir /Volumes/NTFS
   sudo mount_ntfs /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/NTFS
   killall Finder

Enter your password when prompted.

 

If you now have a hard drive on your desktop called NTFS that contains all the files from your NTFS drive, then this should work for you.

 

To make it automount:

 

Close TextEdit if it's already open

 

Type into Terminal:

sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit

Enter your password when prompted.

 

This saves you from having to use nano, vi, or some other Terminal-based editor

 

Now navigate on your computer to /System/Library/Extensions, right-click (or ctrl-click) on IOStorageFamily.kext and click on Show Package Contents, then click on Contents, and then drag Info.plist to TextEdit in the dock.

 

Look for a list of Windows partition styles, and replace

<key>0x06</key>
   <string>DOS_FAT_16</string>

with

<key>0x06</key>
   <string>Windows_NTFS</string>

You should have Windows_NTFS listed twice in a close region.

 

Save your changes and close TextEdit, and then go back to the Terminal window and paste the following:

sudo -s
   chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorage*
   chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorage*
   rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
   rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
   reboot

Enter your password when prompted.

 

Now when you reboot, your NTFS drives should show up!

 

Its working absolutely for me. Thanks a lot man. Just to clarify that my problem was with ATA HD (disk1s1), and it was showing like Windows_LDM. So I changed it in the way you described, just I didnt alter this - 

<key>0x06</key>
 <string>DOS_FAT_16</string>

but I had changed 

<key>0x42</key>
			 <string>Windows_LDM</string>

with 

<key>0x42</key>
			 <string>Windows_NTFS</string>

 

Thank u one more time. :P

Sincerly yours, Nikolay

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