Lacie Mobile driver is unknown to Fedora

[antonio montagnani]

2007/10/13, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com>:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > I purchased a 80GB hi-speed Hard drive (USB2.0), but when I plug it, I
> > get only (from lsusb)
> > Bus 005 Device 007: ID 04b4:6830 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. USB-2.0 IDE Adapter
> >
> > and from var/log/messages :
> >
> > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Hitachi
> > HTS541680J9AT00  0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
> > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 156301488 512-byte
> > hardware sectors (80026 MB)
> > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache:
> > write through
> > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 156301488 512-byte
> > hardware sectors (80026 MB)
> > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache:
> > write through
> > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel:  sdb: sdb1
> > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
> > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
>
> Well that is perfectly fine as far as it goes -- it is recognized as a
> Mass Storage Class Driver device and SCSI partitions are allocated.
>
> # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
>
> for example should mount it at /mnt
>
> If the issue is it doesn't trigger the mounting GUI stuff, I guess that
> is down to the hal or udev stuff that I don't really understand much
> about at the moment.
>
> -Andy
>
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Tnx Andy.

Of course if you use the command mount what is mounted is only for
root, that is not exactly the meaning why people buy USB disk!!!

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Antonio Montagnani
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