Hi Robert,
On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:54, Robert Barbour wrote:
> The only indication I can find that the USB port is detected is when I go
> into system information and it tells me the name of the memory stick -
> presumably this is the 'volume label' allocated by the friend who provided
> the stick.
>
So the physical hardware seems to be working OK. (on my SuSE 10 box, and IIRC
SuSE 9.1, I can hot plug USB memory cards - the system automaticaly mounts
them).
What does mount show?
What happens when you try to manually mount the disk (typically it will be
mapped to the first free SCSI device - e.g. /dev/sda)?
Try watching /var/log/messages while you plug it in (open a konsole window and
type in
su
(your root password)
tail -f /var/log/messages
Can you access the disk from a different machine / a different operating
system?
Since your machine is detecting the disk, this rather suggests that it doesn't
like the format of the disk (IIRC this came up on the list about a year ago -
the poster resolved the problem by reformatting as a DOS disk).
HTH
C.
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