Mounting pen-drives

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Mar 1 17:00:53 UTC 2006


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 20 February 2006 23:50, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 17:23 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon February 20 2006 5:17 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>>>I don't think it is anything _you_ changed.
>>>>
>>>>OK - so maybe an update broke it.
>>>
>>>I'm curious, now. Which version of KDE are you running?
>>
>>FWIW Claude, I am using gnome.
>>
>>I would expect this is a hotplug issue and not a windows manager issue.
>>
> 
> What surprised me was that the old laptop still has automounting working, 
> while the other two boxes don't.  All three have FC4, and all are updated 
> daily.
> 
> Anne
> 

Been away on holidays and just got back.

This is my experience as well.  USB drive works properly on two FC-4 
machines but not on a third machine.  All updated almost daily.  Two 
configured almost the same.

Just tried to mount my stick on the machine that does not work.

 From /var/log/messages
   Mar  1 09:53:05 xxxx kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Mar  1 09:53:05 xxxx kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Mar  1 09:53:05 xxxx kernel: SCSI device sda: 2014992 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (1032 MB)
Mar  1 09:53:05 xxxx kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Mar  1 09:53:05 xxxx kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Mar  1 09:53:05 xxxx kernel:  sda: sda1
Mar  1 09:53:05 xxxx kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
Mar  1 09:53:11 xxxx scsi.agent[30343]: disk at 
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-6/1-6:1.0/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0
Mar  1 09:53:17 xxxx fstab-sync[30390]: added mount point 
/media/Robin_Laing for /dev/sda1

The stick is labled as Robin_Laing.

The mount point is in /media but when I type in mount, it isn't listed 
at all.  df doesn't show anything either.

If I remove the stick, the mount point /media/Robin_Laing disappears. 
  Something is not tying the /dev/sda1 to /media/Robin_Laing.

I thought the stick was damaged as a Windows user had borrowed it.  I 
can manually mount the drive.

Are your symptoms the same?

-- 
Robin Laing




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