Hi,

a good friend of mine who is Linux literate had a look at my problem. Wifi seems to be fixed, it appeared to be the problem mentioned in the update to your Wifi guide http://www.raspyfi.com/wi-fi-o…..ple-guide/. Shame on me, I just hadn't seen the update

We tried a NTFS drive here in the office, it mounted oK. Could it be that my problem might be related to either the size (2TB) of the drive or the fact that it is USB 3.0?

regards, Uwe

Thank you for your detailled help. I followed your instructions, almost everything went oK, apart from the last step. mount -a produces mount error(115): Operation now in progress.
What can be done about that?
Thanks for the other hints as well – highly appreciated!
Uwe

NTFS. Same happens if I remove the NTFS HDD and plug in a FAT32 stick instead. fdisk -l sees it, but mount -a produces the error message mentioned above.

Thanks again for your quick reply.

fdisk -l would show

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 8001 MB, 8001683456 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 244192 cylinders, total 15628288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00017b69

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 8192 122879 57344 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 122880 3788799 1832960 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398931968 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029164 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9ccf44dd

fstab would be

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 2
/dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
//192.168.1.27/nasmusic /mnt/nas cifs username=pi,password=,uid=mpd,file_mode=0$
/dev/sdb1 /media/music ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, so no using swapon|off from here on, use $

You know what's totally weird? I still get the error msg, but after several attempts, GMPC finally sees all the music and plays it as well. It took several attempts, inbetween I got a lot of MPD error messages about not being able to decode the music, – but now it seems to work. Very, very strange. Could it be that raspyfi has some problem if the HDD spins down after not being used for a while?

I'm kind of flabbergasted here…

Yeah – flabbergasted is one of those nice words, isn't it

Right now, everything seems to run. Thanks for the help so far. One other question: I'd like to keep the HDD connected to Rasperry, but I also want to be able to add new music to it. In my view, a good way to achieve that would be to make the HDD accessible for my Windows PC. I've found quite some tutorials for that on the web, but none that makes complete sense to me. Is it possible to share the HDD so that a Win PC can access it, although it already has some mount point? From my question, you obviously see, that I don't have too much knowledge of Linux, so sorry for being somewhat thick here.

Right now, this HD is sda1 (changed it from sdb..). What would I need to do to share it?

Thanks again, Uwe

Thanks again – I begin to feel like in a 1:1 support session Can't thank you enough.
Works as soon as I choose SFTP as protocol.

Nice workaround – but to be honest, I was thinking along the lines of mounting the HD that is connected to Pi as a network drive to Windows, so that I can rip CDs directly to the drive without saving them to a local drive first and then ftping them over to Pi.
I found a procedure like that: http://www.thomas-krenn.com/de…..ter_Debian (Sorry, German Website, but perhaps the CLI lines make sense to you?)
What I don't get with my limited knowledge is the path to the partition (/media/storage). as far as I can see, I'd need to assign the partition that is assigned to the HD – could that be /media/music?

Sorry to bother you that much – I can only say I'm very grateful.
Take care, Uwe

Thanks again. I wasn't aware of those problems. Tried it nonetheless – and it seems to work quite nicely. Ripping to the HD seems to be quite slow, though (Wifi? NTSC on Pi?) Perhaps I'm going to buy another Pi and turn it into a NAS, but for the time being I've got a working solution
Thanks agoin for your kind support – and I'm looking forward to seeing the next steps in the development of Rasbyfi.

Thanks again I wouldn't have expected rasperry to perform poorly as a NAS, but of course I trust your expertise here
Set up openmediavault on an old desktop PC (just for the fun…), works oK, Linking raspyfi to a music share on an USB disk worked as well. Nice setup, looks as if I could stick to that (apart from perhaps exchanging the PC for an old laptop).
What I find strange, though, is that suddenly it takes ages to renew raspyfi's database (1700 albums, 23000 songs). Hours and hours – and I'm still stuck with artists beginning with "F"… Unbelievable. Could it be the fact that raspyfi is connected via wifi? But then again – just getting the database shouldn't cause that much traffic… The NAS machine shouldn't be too slow either (AMD 64 3000, 2 GB RAM). Was much quicker when the HDD was connected directly to Pi, although it took quite some time then as well.
Thanks again, can't wait to see Raspyfi's next RC

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