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Re: [LUG] Sad encounter - Buffalo HDD

 

On 26/09/12 13:59, Peter M Le Mare wrote:
I will try to do this. I do follow as closely as I can instructions for the terminal but it usual say it does not understand and recognise the instruction. This is what happened with the driver for the brother printer it just wouldn't install it (I did find the right driver). Anyway the HDD says unable mount and filsystem unknown "ex fat"

This might clue you into why it won't load [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT]

ie. exfat is not widely supported outside MS (licenced) products.

This might help on your Ubuntu system... [http://softwaroid.com/2011/12/20/how-to-solve-the-unknown-filesystem-type-exfat-problem/]

Martin



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