Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)
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.
That's just of the top of my head. Let us know if you make any progress. :-)
greets,
Wim
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