Lacie Mobile driver is unknown to Fedora

Antonio antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Sun Oct 14 16:25:12 UTC 2007


2007/10/14, Antonio <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
> 2007/10/14, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
> > Antonio wrote:
> > > 2007/10/14, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>:
> > >> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 09:42 +0200, Antonio wrote:
> > >>> if my Fedora would read the label (LACIE in Windows) ........ :-)
> > >>>
> > >>> And if I issue a mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt i can read my Folders.....so
> > >>> device is not empty.
> > >>> Another LACIE drive (not same model...) works fine
> > >> You aren't trying to connect two drives at the same time with the same
> > >> volume name?
> > >
> > > Of course not!!! I connected the external USB drive to two different
> > > PC with no other USB drive
> > >> Just to see what happens, if you can, connect the problem drive to the
> > >> Windows box, and rename it.  Now, see if it works in Linux.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > Funny: it did the trick.....renaming label was sufficient to have my
> > > USB disk appearing on my Linux boxes....it is a kind of magic, isn't
> > > it???
> >
> > WAG - could HAL be keeping tract of the disk ID/LABEL and not
> > mounting a different disk with the same label? Do you know how long
> > it was between unplugging one drive with the LACIE label and
> > plugging in the next one? It sure sounds like a HAL bug.
> >
> > Mikkel
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> This is a very good point, that I didn' have realized by myself.
>
> I can't tell for sure, it was not disconnected today or yesterday, I
> do not remember exactly, I think about a week ago....
>
> --
> Antonio Montagnani
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>

in any case, I don't think to have connected the first LACIE to my
laptop, so I still have some doubt....
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Antonio Montagnani
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