problem mounting ntfs partitions on RHEL3

Question

I am able to mount ntfs partitions in read-only mode on RHEL3 (kernel 2.4.21-4.EL) on, say machine A. However, on machine B with the same OS (and kernel) I got the error "mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel". The only difference between the two machines is machine A has SCSI drives and machine B has IDE drives. The entries in /etc/fstab for the two machines are:

Machine A: /dev/sda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
Machine B: /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0

Am I missing something (such as loading some kernel module to enable to kernel to read ntfs volumes)? Thanks for any help.

thanhvn · Answer

Ok, I just realized what I did wrong...and fixed it.

thanhvn · Answer

Ok, I found the solution to my own problem. (Looks like it's a common problem and a very good answer is given at http://www.linuxforum.com/tutcomments/1/96.php). However, I now run into another problem. I'm able to mount several ntfs partitions but there is one I cannot mount. I did a fdisk -l and the results are:

Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 2551 14593 96735397+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb3 14 2296 18338197+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb4 2297 2550 2040255 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb5 2551 14593 96735366 7 HPFS/NTFS

I wanted to mount the ntfs partition at /dev/hdb5, so I added a line to /etc/fstab as follows:

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/data2 ntfs ro,umask-0222 0 0

Then on the command line I did a: mount /mnt/data2, and got the following error:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5,
or too many mounted file systems

Does anyone know what this error means and how to fix it? Thanks.

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