Bug#338734: fstab doesn't mount NTFS partitions on Serial ATA drives.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:42:37PM +0100, Matteo Frare Barutti wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: all
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I found that Serial ATA drives with NTFS partitions present in /etc/fstab 
> doesn't get mounted in bootstrap.
> drives are correctly detected; if you manually mount partitions via 
> terminal/console instead, they correctly get mounted;
> 
> Example:
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/hda2       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> /dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/sda1	/mnt/storage	ntfs	umask=0222,ro	0	0
> 
> /dev/sda1 doesn't get mounted.
> 
> then, if i write in a console:
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/storage/ -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
> everything is ok.
> 
> Normal ATA drives with ntfs are correctly mounted on same system.
> 
> Tried with all stable kernel, same problem.
> Tried with another system, same problem.
> 
> 
> see for reference:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/09/msg01346.html;
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/01/msg00138.html; 
> 
> kernels >= 2.6 are affected with this issue, both stable and testing;

Can you try adding ntfs to /etc/modules, and reboot and see if this still
happens ? 

Anyway, i seriously doubt that this is a kernel bug, most probably either a
mount bug or one in the boot scripts or whatever they are called, in charge of
mounting the disks.

Friendly,

Sven Luther