Automounting MP3 Player

[Robin Laing]

max wrote:
> Dave Cross wrote:
>> I have an iRiver MP3 player. Previously, when I have attached it to my
>> Fedora system, it has been automatically recognised and mounted and an
>> icon has appeared on the desktop.
>>
>> Just now when I plugged it in, I didn't get any of that happening. I
>> still got the following messages in /var/log/messages
>>
>> Feb 25 21:25:15 giles kernel: usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using
>> ehci_hcd and address 109
>> Feb 25 21:25:15 giles kernel: usb 1-7: configuration #2 chosen from 1 
>> choice
>> Feb 25 21:25:15 giles kernel: scsi14 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
>> Storage devices
>> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: scsi 14:0:0:0: Direct-Access     TOSHIBA
>>  MK4004GAH        JC00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
>> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] 78126048 512-byte
>> hardware sectors (40001 MB)
>> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
>> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache:
>> write through
>> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] 78126048 512-byte
>> hardware sectors (40001 MB)
>> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
>> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache:
>> write through
>> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel:  sdc: sdc1 < sdc5 >
>> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
>> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 
>> type 0
>>
>> And I can still get access to the player by manually mounting
>> /dev/sdc5 to the appropriate directory. But it used to be an automatic
>> process and I'd like to get that functionality back.
>>
>> I recently did a clean installation of Fedora 8 onto this system. I'm
>> pretty sure that it has worked since the upgrade (but I can't be 100%
>> sure of that).
>>
>> Any advice appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dave...
>>
> System>Preferences>Hardware>Removable Drives and Media
> 
> See what options are selected.
> 
> Max
> 


Also check to see if hal is still running.  I have had issues in the 
past that were similar with my iRiver.


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Robin Laing