I would mount the drive and do an ls -al. for music players there is a .file that the file manager interprets as instructions on what the device supports.
Don't now the file names but I would suspect it is something like this. Or it could be an error and I would check the system log. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:27 PM, website reader <[email protected]>wrote: > I have 2 SANDISK USB memory sticks, one is an older 8 gig vob and the > newer is a 32 gig vob. Here's the problem. When I stick the 32 gig > vob into a USB port, Ubuntu quickly recognizes it and mounts it into > the local file system and the "df" command shows it. However when I > plug in the older 8 gig drive, Ubuntu seems confused, then mounts an > icon on the Gnome computer menu drop-down, but does not actually mount > the drive into the filesystem. I have to manually mount this drive. > > But I am puzzled as to why the icon appears because that meant that > the OS saw something. Both are NTFS file systems. Trying to run > GParted from the Gnome Desktop results in an endless "Scanning all > devices..." message which never terminates. > > What could be wrong here? I am assuming that something with the older > USB stick is causing the problems. > > This problem seems to have recently appeared after Ubuntu 12.04 LTS > upgrades. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
