USB devices - howdoi?

[Jeremy Anderson]

On Friday 12 January 2007 11:01, Donn wrote:
> Hi,
> This is the opposite of a howto - it's a howdi :)
> It's all about USB stuff.
>
> 1.
> This might sound extremely daft, but how would I go about making a sound
> play when I plug in a USB device and another when I unplug it?
>
> 2.
> How do I get particular USB hard drives to *always* use the same mount
> point? When I plug in my Maxtor (for example) I always want it to be
> in /media/maxtor.
> At the moment it's kinda done by 'magic'. I
> see /media/sda1, /media/sdb1, /media/sdc1 and the mount point seems to
> cycle upwards everytime I connect a new device.
>
> 3.
> Have you noticed?
> This happens quite often, I'll describe the steps:
> a. plugin USB hdd. An icon appears on desktop name "120G Media"
> b. I right-click it and choose "Mount"
> c. It mounts fine.
> d. I work with it. Later I unmount it.
> e. I unplug and plug it in again - maybe I took drive away for a time.
> f. The icon appears
> g. I right click on it but there is no "Mount" option. It's just not there.
> h. I must open a console and sudo mount it.
> Sometimes what happens at point d and e is that something I do crashes the
> usb system and I am forced to umount as root from the console. Then when I
> try to remount from the icon, it's the same as g.
>
> That's the lot.
> /d
>
> --
> "You know, I've gone to a lot of psychics, and they've told me a lot of
> different things, but not one of them has ever told me 'You are an
> undercover policewoman here to arrest me.'"
> -- New York City undercover policewoman

for the mounting of the usb for now on you can follow these directions.  Don't 
forget to add the line into /etc/fstab

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-tutorials-howtos-reference-material/15776-how-mount-usb-flash-drives-linux.html

flash and usb hdd should be the same results.