Disk inserted is not readable by this computer

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Disk inserted is not readable by this computer

Ok, so I installed a second HD in my Mac pro, and installed Ubuntu Linux on that drive. Well everytime Mac OS X boots, the message in the subject always pops up, and I have to hit ignore, otherwise i'll destruct my linux partitions..

How do I get OS X to STOP asking me this? I don't want to wake up early one morning and click the wrong button.

Mac Pro, 2.8GHz 8x, 2GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.6), ATI Radeon 4870, OS X Snow Leopard and Vista

Posted on Oct 6, 2009 2:20 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 6, 2009 12:18 PM in response to Transgenic X5-655

No one? I tried searching but found nothing.

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Answer 2

Oct 6, 2009 12:31 PM in response to Transgenic X5-655

Is your ubuntu partition formatted as NTFS? That seems likely as Mac OS X just wants to format it to give you a readable drive. Might want to install MacFUSE/NTFS-3G if this is the case - not only will it make that error go away, but it'll let you read and write from the drive in Leopard.

http://macfuse.googlecode.com/files/MacFUSE-2.0.3%2C2.dmg

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Answer 3

Oct 6, 2009 12:34 PM in response to topher1078

You can't run Linux on NTFS..

It's formatted as ext4..

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Answer 4

Oct 6, 2009 1:01 PM in response to Transgenic X5-655

My bad. MacFUSE has ext2/ext3 support I believe, but not sure about ext4.

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Answer 5

Oct 6, 2009 1:54 PM in response to topher1078

Ok, I installed MacFuse with an EXT plugin. I have ext3 actually, my bad.. I can mount it, but when I reboot my Mac back into OS X, it still whines about it being unreadable.

I want OS X to stop telling me that. MacFuse has to mount the ext3 drive by mounting commands, OS X won't do it by itself.

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tomf40ph

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Dec 16, 2009 9:23 AM in response to Transgenic X5-655

Which plug-in for MacFuse are you using?

I am using http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-ext2/ without issue in 10.5.8.

According to this info it seems to also work in Snow Leopard:

http://planetlotus.org/profiles/stephan-h-wissel58347accessing-ext2-data-from-mac-os-x--works-on-snow-leopard-partially-

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