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

[Richard England]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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
>>
>>     

Thanks, Ed. 

That will enable non-root users to mount.  But it would be nice if it 
did the thumbdrive/camera routine and mounted itself. That's the 
direction I would like help/pointers on.

~~R