Not sure what to say, just tried 4 different USB drives, they all popped up on the desktop just fine.
2 4 giggers, a 2 gigger, and my old old 512kb one all worked with Ubuntu 7.04 on my Dell D600 laptop.. >>Been using Ubuntu for a couple weeks now with some minor annoyances. >>The main one is that I can't get any USB keys to work. When I insert >>one, I get a message saying "you don't have permissions to mount that >>device". If I drop to the command line and mount it with sudo it >>works, but then I can't unmount it. Right-clicking on the mount point >>and selecting "unmount" results in a "that device is not mounted" >>error. And even though the file explorer showed the files being >>copied over, they aren't actually on the key. >> >>Secondly, the FAT32 USB key I formatted in Ubuntu is not readable by >>windows. I tried reformatting it with windows but I got an "Windows >>cannot finish formatting this device" error. WTF? I thought all OSes >>could read and write to FAT partitions. >> >>These two problems alone are making me reconsider my switch. I can >>understand the need to not run as root all the time but mounting USB >>keys should not be one of them. >> >>And no, there is not any U3 crapware on my USB key. I nuked it using >>a partition editor a while ago under windows. Now THAT was a painful >>experience. But this problem happens with the 6 different USB keys I >>have tried, some with U3 and some without. -- JRS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please remove **X** to reply... ...Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult...
