I have Kubuntu 7,04 as you said I had no problem on 6,10 with mounting external NTFS HDD (USB2,0 - SATA II 320GB Seagate HDD with NTFS).
Kubuntu 6,10: honza@kubuntu:~$ dmesg | tail [17182146.204000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through [17182146.208000] SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) [17182146.208000] sda: Write Protect is off [17182146.208000] sda: Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00 [17182146.208000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through [17182146.208000] sda: sda1 [17182146.224000] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda [17182146.224000] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 [17182160.100000] NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future. [17182164.200000] NTFS volume version 3.1. honza@kubuntu:~$
Kubuntu 7,04: honza@kubuntu:~$ dmesg | tail [ 3890.876140] sda: Write Protect is off [ 3890.876145] sda: Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00 [ 3890.876149] sda: assuming drive cache: write through [ 3890.877244] SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) [ 3890.879535] sda: Write Protect is off [ 3890.879544] sda: Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00 [ 3890.879547] sda: assuming drive cache: write through [ 3890.879552] sda: sda1 [ 3890.896370] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda [ 3890.896438] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 honza@kubuntu:~$
I have Kubuntu 7,04 as you said I had no problem on 6,10 with mounting external NTFS HDD (USB2,0 - SATA II 320GB Seagate HDD with NTFS).
Kubuntu 6,10:
honza@kubuntu:~$ dmesg | tail
[17182146.204000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[17182146.208000] SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
[17182146.208000] sda: Write Protect is off
[17182146.208000] sda: Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00
[17182146.208000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[17182146.208000] sda: sda1
[17182146.224000] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[17182146.224000] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[17182160.100000] NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future.
[17182164.200000] NTFS volume version 3.1.
honza@kubuntu:~$
Kubuntu 7,04:
honza@kubuntu:~$ dmesg | tail
[ 3890.876140] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 3890.876145] sda: Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00
[ 3890.876149] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 3890.877244] SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
[ 3890.879535] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 3890.879544] sda: Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00
[ 3890.879547] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 3890.879552] sda: sda1
[ 3890.896370] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[ 3890.896438] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
honza@kubuntu:~$