Need help mounting an external HDD

[sunilh121]

I have a 1tb seagate drive but I am having trouble mounting it. I have tried looking for solutions but can not follow them properly.
I have added this command to the terminal and it shows my external HDD ( sudo fdisk -l)

Could you please get my external hard drive mounted to the PI 2

[fruitoftheloom]

I have a 1tb seagate drive but I am having trouble mounting it. I have tried looking for solutions but can not follow them properly.
I have added this command to the terminal and it shows my external HDD ( sudo fdisk -l)

Could you please get my external hard drive mounted to the PI 2

Presumably it is a 2.5" USB Drive ?

Presumably you have a good quality 5V 2A PSU ?

If so then add following to config.txt

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max_usb_current=1

https://projects.drogon.net/testing-set ... erry-pi-b/

[sunilh121]

When I type in max_USB_current=1 nothing happens

[fruitoftheloom]

When I type in max_USB_current=1 nothing happens

You spelt it wrong, please read carefully what I actually wrote, did you read the link I posted ?

You add the line to the config.txt file then save the file and reboot the RPi

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... fig-txt.md

https://www.raspberrypi.org/help/faqs/#power

[RaTTuS]

sudo fdsik -l
will show you what is connected
depending on what it shows then
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
will mount it
you make want to mount it else where instead
i.e.
sudo mkdir /mnt/movies
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/movoes
also it depends if it has been partitioned and or formatted
sudo fdisk /dev/sda
will get you to the partition menu - be careful as this will trash anything on it if you do it wrong

[sunilh121]

When I type in max_USB_current=1 nothing happens

You spelt it wrong, please read carefully what I actually wrote, did you read the link I posted ?

You add the line to the config.txt file then save the file and reboot the RPi

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... fig-txt.md

https://www.raspberrypi.org/help/faqs/#power

sorry just got the raspberry Pi 2. (Beginner noob)

How do I configure the /boot/config.txt.?

[DougieLawson]

Hold [SHIFT] during boot and NOOBS will enter the recovery system. The recovery system has a config editor.

If you're not using NOOBS then open a command window (LXTerminal) and use sudo nano /boot/config.txt to edit your config.

[sunilh121]

Thanks got the usb_current=1 into the /boot/config file.

when I try to mount my external drive it comes with a message saying

mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already excusively opened. The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which could identified for example by help of the 'fuser' command.

I tried looking for it on file manager but was not there.

[DougieLawson]

You need to add

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max_usb_current=1

You can check whether it's set by reading the value for GPIO38
gpio -g read 38 # using WiringPi's gpio command

[fruitoftheloom]

You need to add

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max_usb_current=1

Yep requested that was undertaken in first response

[DougieLawson]

The NTFS drive needs to be repaired in a Windows system to remove the "in-use" flags.

[sunilh121]

Got my external drive to mount to the PI but messed it up. I learning by making mistakes. The PI 2 goes into emergency mode when booting up. the last file I changed was /ect/fstab. but now when I type in the code if doesn't open it up

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sudo nano /ect/fstab

[DougieLawson]

Warning: pet peeve alert.

It's etc (from Latin et cetera) not "ect".

[sunilh121]

Thanks. Haven't done programming for time. The last programming language I learnt was C++ about 2 years ago.