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... ;-) -- Jack Craig Software Engineer 831.461.7100 x120 www.extraview.com -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
