How can you get a Seagate USB 160 GB drive to mount?

[Ed Greshko]

Richard England wrote:
> I have acquired a Seagate ST31600261-RK  160GB  USB drive.
> 
> It is billed as a "Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drive". (..well
> pushbutton perhaps in Windoze...).
> 
> /sbin/lsusb shows it appearing as /dev/sdc1  and by adding the following
> to my /etc/fstab file
>    /dev/sdc1   /mnt/seagate   vfat   rw
> 
> I can mount it, logged in as root, using
>    mount /mnt/seagate

At the end of the line....  rw,users

> 
> It does NOT "automount" like my USB thumb drives and USB printers
> automount. 
> What needs to be configured to get this to work in a similar fashion?  I
> assume that it will involve /etc/udev (given the recent discussion here)
> and perhaps hal, and the manufacturer and device code from lsusb.
> 
> If someone can give me some starters on what to research then if/when I
> get it to work I will submit an enhancement request to get this device
> added so the next person can benefit.
> 
> ?
> 
> Thanks for any input,
> ~~R
> 


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