USB Hardrive WD my book 500

Help me please if you can. I have just installed the wonderful Open Suse 11 kde 3.5 and i am loving it. But a black cloud hangs over this paradise. My computer-folder finds my USB hardrive Western Digital My Book 500 but when i try to open it and look at the content there is always error message.
Is this the error report ? :
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:1e:68:5e:fb:5c:00:0c:c3:50:10:2e:08:00 SRC=84.108.15.110 DST=192.168.0.13 LEN=131 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=251 ID=54708 PROTO=UDP SPT=27943 DPT=39171 LEN=111
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): parse_options(): Unrecognized mount option locale.
NTFS-fs warning (device sdb1): parse_options(): Option utf8 is no longer support ed, using option nls=utf8. Please use option nls=utf8 in the future and make sur e utf8 is compiled either as a module or into the kernel.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): parse_options(): Unrecognized mount option locale.
NTFS-fs warning (device sdb1): parse_options(): Option utf8 is no longer support ed, using option nls=utf8. Please use option nls=utf8 in the future and make sur e utf8 is compiled either as a module or into the kernel.
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:1e:68:5e:fb:5c:00:0c:c3:50:10:2e:08:00 SRC=72.47.92.72 DST=192.168.0.13 LEN=131 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=251 ID=40320 PR OTO=UDP SPT=44332 DPT=39171 LEN=111
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:1e:68:5e:fb:5c:00:0c:c3:50:10:2e:08:00 SRC=86.32.43.114 DST=192.168.0.13 LEN=131 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=251 ID=6741 PR OTO=UDP SPT=49505 DPT=39171 LEN=111
petri@linux-04fc:~>
(IF SOMEBODY CAN HELP? PLEASE HELP ME. I HAVE ALL MY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS/FILES ON THAT DRIVE)

petrisx wrote:
> Help me please if you can. I have just installed the wonderful Open Suse
> 11 kde 3.5 and i am loving it. But a black cloud hangs over this
> paradise. My computer-folder finds my USB hardrive Western Digital My
> Book 500 but when i try to open it and look at the content there is
> always error message.

> NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): parse_options(): Unrecognized mount option
> locale.
Here it says clearly that you use the “locale” mount option with the
ntfs driver which does not support this. If you want to have write
access to your ntfs-partition, you should use ntfs-3g instead in your
/etc/fstab. It also supports the locale-option.

Please provide the entry of your /etc/fstab for further assistance.

Maybe this might help?

HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11

Had the same problem myself, until a I read the link above. Top info. My external usb drive mount woes are over.