Problem attaching hard drive to Laptop converted to FreeNAS server

[aquacash5]

I have a Toshiba Satellite
2805-S301
p650, 14TX. 128M.10.DVD/M/L

I am trying to connect my 1TB SeaGate external hard drive to it with a USB plug in the back of the laptop so I can share it over the network. I can not figure out how to make freenas recognize it. Please Help!!!

 

[ProtoSD]

How is your external hard drive formatted?
Did you create a volume with it in FreeNAS?

FreeNAS isn't intended to just share any drive, USB, internal or external, on your network.

 

[aquacash5]

No it is not at the moment it is a NTFS is there a way to change the the file system without removing the data?

And it will not even recognize the existence of the drive at all anyways.

 

[ProtoSD]

No, there's no way to change the filesystem without removing the data. Also, if it did happen to appear DON'T try to import it and choose NTFS because it will destroy your data. Actually I don't think FreeNAS will let you use a USB device as a member of a volume. If you logged in with ssh to the command line and did a 'dmesg' (without quotes) you would probably find that FreeNAS detects your drive, but just isn't showing it to you since it's USB and not a valid disk to add to a volume/pool.