Re: Seagate USB disk does not automount

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On 05/27/2010 11:03 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> On 05/27/2010 10:39 AM, jack craig wrote:
>    
>> On 05/27/2010 09:48 AM, Tom Diehl wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a new seagate external USB disk that does not mount when plugged in
>>> to my F-12 machine. I can mount it by hand and access it normally.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have instructions for adding udev rules or whatever it takes
>>> to get this to automount when plugged in?
>>>
>>> dmesg shows the following:
>>> usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
>>> usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=3300
>>> usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
>>> usb 1-3: Product: Desktop
>>> usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Seagate
>>> usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 2GHL7D7A
>>> usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>>> ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
>>>
>>> lsusb -v shows the following:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> I know this sounds wacky, but trying putting a file system label on your
>> seagate fs?
>> I had this problem and doing a e2label made the automount work.
>>
>> YMMV, good luck, jackc...
>>
>>
>>      
> e2label will only work if you put a Linux fs (ext2, ext3, ..) on the
> drive.  Since most external drives already have NTFS on them you will
> need to use something else to label the drive.  However, the automount
> should work regardless of a label.
>
> In the case of NTFS you may need to install the ntfs-3g package to get
> automount to work.
>
> Paolo
>    
Good point;  no NTFS here, strictly Linux... ;-)

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