InsanelyMac Forum > NTFS Read/Write Support Finally here!

bushmills

Feb 27 2007, 11:33 AM

Macfuse-core 0.2.2/ntfs 3G 1.0 = really slow USB external HDD speed + wrong Letters in Foldernames (Französisch = Franz? )

m402

Mar 5 2007, 06:29 PM

For a while MacFUSE worked great...all I had do to do gain writable capability was "killall Finder". But now my external still mounts as Read-only but "killall Finder" doesn't fix it.

I went through and did a fresh reinstall of everything and got to the following roadblock:

CODE
sudo ntfs-3g /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/"STORAGE" -o ping_diskarb,volname="STORAGE"
Failed to mount '/dev/disk0s1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS is unclean. Choose one of these actions:
Boot Windows and shutdown it cleanly, or if you have a removable
device then click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows
taskbar notification area before disconnecting it.
Or
Run 'ntfsfix' on Linux unless you have Vista, then mount NTFS with
the 'force' option read-write, or with the 'ro' option read-only.
Or
Mount the NTFS volume with the 'ro' option in read-only mode.

Any suggestions?

This is very disheartening...when it worked it rocked.

XoDeus

Mar 6 2007, 07:18 PM

I've tried the updated method, but can't see my drive in Finder after reboot.
What then? Should I just continue with the manual steps or?
Here's mine dmesg:

CODE

hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000
PAE enabled
enabling INTEL features
standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
vm_page_bootstrap: 255843 free pages
mig_table_max_displ = 71
Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
ACPI CA 20051117 [debug level=0 layer=0]
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: ready
AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
PASSED! ...maximum protection of commpage set ALL
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

using 5242 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
Started CPU 01
IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 0:23
ACPI: System State [S0 S4 S5] (S0)
ACPI: Button driver prevents system sleep
Security auditing service present
BSM auditing present
disabled
From path: "uuid",
Waiting for boot volume with UUID F44B0E9C-0CD9-3B32-8305-063D255095DE
Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
WARNING: ATA Drive claims FLUSH CACHE EXT feature support but does not claim Extended LBA feature support
Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/IDE1@1F,2/AppleIntelPIIXATARoot/SECD@1/AppleIntelICHxSATA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStorageDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/Maxtor 6Y120M0 Media/IOFDiskPartitionScheme/Untitled 1@1
BSD root: disk0s1, major 14, minor 2
Jettisoning kernel linker.
Resetting IOCatalogue.
Matching service count = 3
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 6
NVDANV30HAL loaded and registered.
Natit: Starting.
Natit: Iterating IORegistry.
Natit: Match found.
Natit: Setting device_type=NVDA,Parent
Natit: Setting @0,device_type=display
Natit: Setting @1,device_type=display
Natit: Setting @0,compatible=NVDA,NVMac
Natit: Setting @1,compatible=NVDA,NVMac
Natit: Setting @0,name=NVDA,Display-A
Natit: Setting @1,name=NVDA,Display-B
Natit: Setting @0,fboffset=0x20000
Natit: Setting model=GeForce FX 5600
NVDA::probe(display)
NVDA::start(display) <1>
NVDA::start(display) <1> failed
AppleIntel8254XEthernet: Ethernet address 00:0d:61:11:e1:6b
Intel8254x -- Link Up -- 00:0d:61:11:e1:6b -- called by interruptOccurred() --
-- Auto-Neg Advertise Reg (04d) = 0xde1, Link Partner Ability Reg (05d) = 0x45e1, Gig Advertise Reg (09d) = 0x1200, Gig Link Partner Ability Reg (10d) = 0x0

FavleX

Mar 9 2007, 08:42 AM

I got NTFS mounted automatically at boot, is there any way to disable it , so I could mont it manually only when I need really??
I don't kow, cause I 'm niuub, maybe changing something on /etc/fstab ..??
thanks.

XanthraX

Mar 12 2007, 10:37 AM

QUOTE(m402 @ Mar 5 2007, 06:29 PM)

For a while MacFUSE worked great...all I had do to do gain writable capability was "killall Finder". But now my external still mounts as Read-only but "killall Finder" doesn't fix it.

I went through and did a fresh reinstall of everything and got to the following roadblock:

CODE
sudo ntfs-3g /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/"STORAGE" -o ping_diskarb,volname="STORAGE"
Failed to mount '/dev/disk0s1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS is unclean. Choose one of these actions:
Boot Windows and shutdown it cleanly, or if you have a removable
device then click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows
taskbar notification area before disconnecting it.
Or
Run 'ntfsfix' on Linux unless you have Vista, then mount NTFS with
the 'force' option read-write, or with the 'ro' option read-only.
Or
Mount the NTFS volume with the 'ro' option in read-only mode.

Any suggestions?

This is very disheartening...when it worked it rocked.

Your NTFS volumes are corrupted. Boot into Windows and run checkdisk (chkdsk) on each ov your NTFS volume (you may schedule chkdsk on restart).
Done!

graphic Design

Mar 13 2007, 01:06 AM

QUOTE(jarodsix @ Jan 20 2007, 11:51 PM)

OK, tried the newest packages (clean install).

1. installed, rebooted, volumes automount by themselves (no editing of anything) - nice
2. they are as network drives - not nice, trash doesn't work (i.e. "files will be removed immediately, OK Cancel")
3. spotlight stopped working / behaves badly
4. Causes a 10 secs shutdown/restart lag.

Is there a way to set which volumes I want to be mounted read only (e.g. XP partition) as opposed to the default RW (data partition)?

That's correct!
Thanks for all people who found this solution to make Mac can write into NTFS drives!
But I wonder, how to make the NTFS drives display like HDD drives, not the network drives?

I've just add this great link in to my signature.
Good job, guys!!!

B612

Mar 22 2007, 09:29 AM

QUOTE(graphic Design @ Mar 13 2007, 02:06 AM)

That's correct!
Thanks for all people who found this solution to make Mac can write into NTFS drives!
But I wonder, how to make the NTFS drives display like HDD drives, not the network drives?

I've just add this great link in to my signature.
Good job, guys!!!

That is very easy. You right click on the network drives and select "information" from the menu.
Then you do the same thing to one of your HDD drives.

You should have two information windows opened. Now you select the small icon at the top of the HDD drive information. Copy this icon and paste it to the small icon of the network drives information window. That's it!

graphic Design

Mar 23 2007, 04:54 PM

QUOTE(B612 @ Mar 22 2007, 04:29 PM)

That is very easy. You right click on the network drives and select "information" from the menu.
Then you do the same thing to one of your HDD drives.

You should have two information windows opened. Now you select the small icon at the top of the HDD drive information. Copy this icon and paste it to the small icon of the network drives information window. That's it!

YEAH, it's so easy!
Thank you!

J o e l

Mar 24 2007, 03:56 AM

do you guys have to wait long for mac to shutdown or restart, because of the cut wheel thing? any solutions for it?

B612

Mar 30 2007, 04:47 PM

Have you guys noticed about this website? You can download the latest ntfs and macfuse for mac os x.

I've just done it and it surely works better than before...

graphic Design

Apr 11 2007, 01:36 PM

QUOTE(B612 @ Mar 30 2007, 11:47 PM)

Have you guys noticed about this website? You can download the latest ntfs and macfuse for mac os x.

I've just done it and it surely works better than before...

Thanks for the link, I've just Updated latest ntfs and macfuse, It works much better than before!

muitommy

Apr 14 2007, 02:08 PM

i find some problems using ntfs-3g
1. some of my files can't show up in my mounted drive , with chinese character , but some of them can be shown in the subdirectory
2. and i try to do a repair disk, the disk become read only (the disk format become ntfs3g(macfuse) and i can't make it back to read/write (Windows NT Filesystem 3G), what should i do?
thankss

graphic Design

Apr 15 2007, 02:32 AM

QUOTE(muitommy @ Apr 14 2007, 09:08 PM)

i find some problems using ntfs-3g
1. some of my files can't show up in my mounted drive , with chinese character , but some of them can be shown in the subdirectory
2. and i try to do a repair disk, the disk become read only (the disk format become ntfs3g(macfuse) and i can't make it back to read/write (Windows NT Filesystem 3G), what should i do?
thankss

U should uninstall by using This one then restart and install NTFS-3G + MacFUSE Tools: 1.328 from begin!

Good LUCK

muitommy

Apr 15 2007, 10:33 AM

QUOTE(graphic Design @ Apr 15 2007, 10:32 AM)

U should uninstall by using This one then restart and install NTFS-3G + MacFUSE Tools: 1.328 from begin!

Good LUCK

thanks. graphic Design
My version was 1.328 already
anyway, i finally find out the problems and get it fixed
my "locale" is now correctly set to en.UTF-8, and my chinese folders and files appeared again in a charm!!!
i'll post this exp. on my blog later and add to my signature

cyclonefr

Apr 15 2007, 10:51 AM

core 0.24 is out
i just hope the ntfs3G programmers can fix the restart wait

capran

Apr 28 2007, 03:24 PM

I have essentially the same configuration as you. I have an ASUS P5VD1-X mobo, which has a VIA 8237R southbridge with RAID 0, 2x WD 150 GB SATAs in RAID 0 config which currently has my Windows XP partition, and a separate P-ATA Seagate 80 GB drive for Hackintosh.

Whenever I boot OS X, it sees the 2 SATA drives, but thinks they're unformatted and wants to know if I want to format them (NO!). So, it's seeing TWO physical drives, instead of the ONE logical RAID device.

I just installed this NTFS-3G/MacFUSE thing, but now all it does is try to mount the first disk as a 150 GB emtpy NTFS partition. I quickly eject it since I don't want to destroy my RAID data.

Any ideas?

QUOTE(envisioneer @ Jan 17 2007, 08:56 AM)

Hi

Just wondering if I could use this to mount my ntfs sata raid (winxp drive)
JaS10.4.8 installed on seperate single PIDE
sees raid as two unreadable drives (have to eject both every startup)
but otherwise all info is correct 2 x Maxtor152.7GB 6Y16OMO SATA Ok etc.
just don't know how/if even poss. to mount as ntfs raid set, disk utility wants to reformat the entire drive!!!

thanks for any help, links to info etc.

fazekaim

May 7 2007, 09:49 PM

Hi,
i installed (macfuse0.2.5, ntfs-3g1.417) and the automount doesn't work.
in disk utility, i click to 'mount' and in the log it logs this: 'Mount of “PORTAL” succeeded'
but the driver PORTAL isn't mounted at all!
i used the terminal mounting command resulting the same: success. How can i read the error message???
how can i fix this problem?

a2000rick

May 10 2007, 06:53 PM

Hey, I got my drive to read and write, but I can only manipulate files that are already on the drive. If I try to copy a file to my NTFS drive in Finder I get an error saying I don't have permissions to write. If I use the cp command in terminal then it works.

Any Ideas?

BTW the NTFS drive has Vista installed, don't know if that has anything to do with it

OcciJano

May 12 2007, 03:25 AM

I've installed:

NTFS-3G 1.417-r3 (Full)
MacFUSE-Core-0.3.0

I installed the packages in this order:

1 MacFuse Core.pkg
2 NTFS-3G.pkg
3 MacFuse Tools.pkg

And finally the work like a charm. Now, I've only the OS X volume icon for my Win XP partition (NTFS) fully read/write, no more the extra network volume icon.

I'm using Mac OS 10.4.9 in my Hackintosh, fully updated.

NIXin

May 20 2007, 07:37 PM

homer007: Link http://idisk.mac.com/shadowofged/Public/So...18%20(Full).dmg is dead.

The iMan

May 22 2007, 08:17 PM

the links are dead

graphic Design

May 23 2007, 09:42 AM

How to change the name of the volume drive (HDD)?
My display name of the volume is something like: disk0s1...
When I tried to change the name, after restart, It returned the damn old name!

graphic Design

May 23 2007, 01:50 PM

Hey guys,
Did U try the latest versions MacFUSE Tools: 0.3.0, NTFS-3G: 1.516 and MacFUSE-Core-0.3.0?
I tried it already but so weird , It doesn't work! My system still display NTFS, not NTFS-3G so that I can't write in NTFS HDD anymore

Anybody have the problem same mine?

EDIT: okie, the answer in official website of NTFS-3G:

CODE

NTFS-3G: 1.516 Current image is broken. Will fix tonight.

Now, waiting for the working version!

The iMan

May 23 2007, 07:58 PM

can someone post a working link

graphic Design

May 24 2007, 12:45 AM

Here is the homepage

scannerfm77

May 30 2007, 02:34 PM

I have installed MacFuse and it works. Once, I copy my file to NTFS partition. After finish copy, suddenly power out. When I boot again, I check my copied file on the NTFS partition but I couldn't find it anywhere. Is this a bug? Please help. Thanks.

Rebo

Jun 1 2007, 04:18 AM

Hello!

The maintainer of the builds took his site offline..

Would some kind soul post recent (or recentish) builds of MacFuse Tools and of NTFS-3G?

NTFS-3G 1.516.dmg and MacFUSE Tools 0.3.0.dmg would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Chrysaor

Jun 1 2007, 04:38 AM

I got NTFS-3G 1.417, includes MacFuse Tools 0.2.5.

Edit: Updated links.

MacFUSE Core 0.3.0: http://rapidshare.com/files/35286494/MacFUSE-Core-0.3.0.dmg

NTFS-3G 1.417: http://rapidshare.com/files/35286395/NTFS-3G_1.417.dmg

MacFUSE Tools 0.2.5: http://rapidshare.com/files/35286435/MacFUSE_Tools_0.2.5.dmg

MacFUSE Tools 0.2.5 + NTFS-3G 1.417: http://rapidshare.com/files/34558180/NTFS-3G_1.417_Full_.dmg

NTFS-3G 1.516: http://rapidshare.com/files/35286307/NTFS-3G-1.516.dmg

jrrjrr

Jun 1 2007, 04:47 AM

The .516 build seems to interfere with mounting some types of .dmg files, including those that require accepting a license agreement before getting to the installation step. I am guessing that is why this was pulled. It would be safer I think at this time to use an older version like the .417 posted just above.

raggedjagged

Jun 4 2007, 04:57 PM

I installed this on my osx86 but it was increadibly SLOW to write to NTFS drives :S Is that normal behaviour? or what? Could someone please help? Thanks

z0rz

Jun 5 2007, 09:46 PM

Here is NTFS-3G-1.516.dmg and mirror.
And MacFuse Core 0.3.0 and mirror.

Your welcome.

raggedjagged

Jun 6 2007, 03:01 PM

So how do i install this properly? Do the instructions from the original post still apply? or are they outdated? Could someone please post step by step instructions? The last time I tried this i ended up with the ntfs drives being VERY slow to write to..i couldn't even share my itunes library cause each time a song would load it would just stall for a while...please help!

Cyman

Jun 7 2007, 02:55 PM

MacFUSE Core 0.4 was released today. You can find it on the upmentioned homepage.

@raggedjagged:
As of installation, I think you just need the Core, the Tools and NTFS-3G, you install these three packages in the right order and that should be it.

raggedjagged

Jun 7 2007, 04:13 PM

Cyman: thanks a lot!! Awesome!! It works great now

Now I can finally have a logical confuguration of a vista drive, an osx drive and a commonly shared data storage drive

JSR

Jun 17 2007, 10:54 AM

Everything works here

diegah

Jun 18 2007, 10:30 PM

hey mates....

i can create folders.... BUT, i can't copy any files to those folders...

what's going on ???
i've got administrative privilage...

it's RW.... i don't know..

plz help

JSR

Jun 19 2007, 10:04 AM

1 problem: it seems that mac os doesn't' automount dvd/cd anymore !

Once a dvd/cd is in the reader there's no icon neither on the desktop nor in Finder.

adinx

Jun 21 2007, 11:29 AM

thanks for the link, great job..

JSR

Jun 21 2007, 08:55 PM

I have to try all again and I need to uninstall MacFuse and ntfs-3g.

How can I do that?

surtin

Jun 23 2007, 02:38 AM

QUOTE(JSR @ Jun 19 2007, 05:04 AM)

1 problem: it seems that mac os doesn't' automount dvd/cd anymore !

Once a dvd/cd is in the reader there's no icon neither on the desktop nor in Finder.

I had that same problem, just uninstall NTFS-3G. Going to try and go back to the earlier build, might even need to use MacFUSE .3 or whatever too.

bilditup1

Jun 24 2007, 02:38 AM

...so the last two versions of NTFS-3g have fundamental errors as far as I know:
1.417 has the insufficient privileges error, which is fixable with a shell script that runs at startup that unmounts the ntfs-3g drive and remounts it with default_permissions
The next version has the 'can't mount most .dmgs' error which is impossible to fix.

It seems the best thing to do is to find older versions of both ntfs-3g and macfuse. I was using macfuse .17 and an earlier version of ntfs-3g and they ran just fine...it's either that or live with 1.417 and wait for shadowofged to return from employer hell...

aniphreak

Jun 24 2007, 07:40 AM

damn i cannot downgrade to lower version of ntfs 3g-- i sucessfuly uinstalled (i thnk macfuse tools, but when i reinstalled the older version, it says "you cannot continue there is nothing to install" i uninstalled macfuse core and ntfs 3g... ryt now my ihack doesnt see my ntfs partitions..

what should i do?

JSR

Jun 24 2007, 09:47 AM

QUOTE(bilditup1 @ Jun 24 2007, 04:38 AM)

...so the last two versions of NTFS-3g have fundamental errors as far as I know:
1.417 has the insufficient privileges error, which is fixable with a shell script that runs at startup that unmounts the ntfs-3g drive and remounts it with default_permissions
The next version has the 'can't mount most .dmgs' error which is impossible to fix.

It seems the best thing to do is to find older versions of both ntfs-3g and macfuse. I was using macfuse .17 and an earlier version of ntfs-3g and they ran just fine...it's either that or live with 1.417 and wait for shadowofged to return from employer hell...

Where can we download these older versions?

aniphreak

Jun 24 2007, 02:46 PM

QUOTE

damn i cannot downgrade to lower version of ntfs 3g-- i sucessfuly uinstalled (i thnk macfuse tools, but when i reinstalled the older version, it says "you cannot continue there is nothing to install" i uninstalled macfuse core and ntfs 3g... ryt now my ihack doesnt see my ntfs partitions..

what should i do?

i have the older versions but damn i cannot install it..anyone please help...

bilditup1

Jun 24 2007, 05:43 PM

I've posted ntfs-3g 1.417 on my webspace...it's in my signature now...

JSR

Jun 25 2007, 04:41 PM

TNX

cyclonefr

Jun 25 2007, 05:58 PM

1.516 is out guys

Chrysaor

Jun 25 2007, 10:45 PM

QUOTE(cyclonefr @ Jun 25 2007, 11:58 AM)

1.516 is out guys

Been a while since it was released, and was pulled because it has serious mounting problems.
1.616 is the latest stable version. There is no installer for it yet, have to compile it.

aniphreak

Jun 26 2007, 02:13 AM

i think the last solution is to someone has to compile th latest ntfs-3g 1.616 version for the f***ing bad installation of my rig to be overwritten....

j0sh097

Jun 27 2007, 06:29 PM

the uphuck install cd comes with all three (macCore, macFuse, and NTFS-3g) installers which work perfectly for me. I could upload it for whoever needs it. Just say so and i'll do it.