Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:46:53 -0400, John Lindsay wrote:

> Lisi wrote:
>> On Friday 10 September 2010 03:45:35 John Lindsay wrote:
>>   
>>> Still trying to find out what is available to enable the drive in
>>> Debian.
>>>     
>>>     
>> Have you tried turning the icon on?
>>
> How do you turn it on? 

Did you already check this?

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/09/msg00659.html

> If I plug in a memory stick it automatically
> recognizes it and an icon appears on the desktop. I have a 10G harddrive
> that I removed from an old machine -- I made it into a portable USB
> drive -- if I plug it in -- an icon automatically appears. It's only
> debian that refuses to show the icon on the desktop. My 2nd machine that
> I use as a test machine had debian installed -- no icon. Run Ubuntu Live
> -- icon appears -- install Ubuntu Live -- icon appears. Install Linux
> mint 9 -- icon appears -- install Fedora 13 -- icon appears. In every
> case where the icon appears I can format it, partition it,
> read/write/move things -- I do have some other distros that I will try
> to see what happens but I suspect the icon will appear and the USB drive
> will appear as expected.

If you have the right GNOME settings and the icon still refuses to appear 
(I assume you let the 2 TiB disk some time until it gets mounted because 
is a big disk) you can just create a shortcut and put it on the desktop.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón