On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:01:54PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 9:18 PM, andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > > I rebooted and then once I went into the filesystem I saw that the > > system recognised it, but did not automount it. This is something that I > > have noticed in the last while - USB data sticks are not being > > automounted the way they used to be (although, I cannot determine a > > turning point in this). They used to trigger an icon to be placed on my > > Gnome desktop once I inserted the stick but now I have to manually open > > the filesystem and click on the USB drive to mount it. I have double > > checked my prefs under Gnome for storage devices, and the option to > > automount and auto-browse are selected, so I don't know what is going on > > with that. > > > > Anyway, crisis with the FreeAgent drive is over. Now I only have this > > mild curiosity re: the automount/auto-browse issue. Anyone have some > > light to shine on this? > > This could be for a number of reasons. Most likely first choice would > be the gnome settings about removable devices. If somehow they got set > to not mount the device automatically that would be a problem. Your > user needs to be in the plugdev group (check with groups <username>), > hald and udev need to be properly installed and running. hald needs > certain libraries which may or may not be bugged, upgrade everything > involved to the latest version you can and try again. I've lost the beginnings of this thread, but there was a recent story about Seagate FreeAgent drives being (intentionally?) designed to *not* work with Linux. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/09/0651200 I actually emailed SeaGate as I've been using their drives very happily for a couple of years (can't beat 5yr warranty for the price) and was really disappointed by this development. I told them I wouldn't be buying/recommending seagate in the future. They actually bothered to respond! Something like: we're sorry, but we do offer a number of other drives that are fully compatible. basically sidestepping my questions and writing me off as a customer. oh well. A
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