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.
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