On Saturday 04 Feb 2006 22:01, Ted Miller wrote: > > Actually, there is more wrong with the USB than just the permission. The > system does not mount the USB drive at all. > > Let's start with my old USB drive, which has less problems (I think it did > come up read-write, but it does not mount). > > Here is what dmesg said about that drive: snip > Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 > usb-storage: device scan complete > > It does not mount the drive, and it is not visible in the "Devices" Icon on > my desktop. > > I can mount it with the command: mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/oldies > but only if I su to root, and then all the files come up with file access > for root (and root group) only. Not very useful. > > When I try to get to it via Konqueror->Go->Storage Media I get the error > message: "KDE mediamanager not running" >
Do you have hal and dbus packages installed, and haldeamon and messagebus services running? In 2006 this is the new way of mounting removable devices. Message bus informs hal when a new device is detected and hal will automatically mount it. You should see log messages from hal. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
