External Backup Disk Drive

[Fr. Denis Carter SSC]

Hi There,
I have not contributed to this before now but I had a similar problem 
with an external Hard drive and discovered that when I plugged in a 
power supply to the drive it was discovered at once.


On 26/06/13 05:07, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 26/06/13 12:51, Ramesh Rao wrote:
>> Hi Basil,
>>
>> Well, none of the options are checked. That means:
>> - Enable automatic mounting of removable media     - not checked
>>     - Only automatically mount removable media that has been manually 
>> mounted before  - not checked
>>     - Mount all removable media at login     -  not checked
>>     - Automatically mount removable media when attached  - not checked
>>
>> After reading your email I *checked* "*Enable automatic mounting of 
>> removable media*" along with "*Automatically mount removable media 
>> when attached".*
>>
>>
>> This made NO difference. The device remains undetected by the OS. Any 
>> more suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ramesh
>>
>>
>> > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:02:38 +1000
>> > From: blchupin at iinet.net.au
>> > To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> > Subject: Re: External Backup Disk Drive
>> >
>> > On 26/06/13 03:00, Ramesh Rao wrote:
>> > > Charles,
>> > >
>> > > Plugging in the USB (ext drive) after booting the workstation 
>> made no
>> > > difference. There is no indication that a device has been added.
>> > > "Device Notifier" says "No devices available". On the contrary, if a
>> > > flash drive is inserted in the same usb port, Device Notifier 
>> pops up,
>> > > as it should.
>> > >
>> > > I am kind of lost..
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Ramesh
>> > [pruned]
>> >
>> > What have you set in System Settings>Removable Devices?
>> >
>> > BC
>> >
>> > --
>> > Using openSUSE 12.3, KDE 4.10.4 & kernel 3.9.7-1 on a system with-
>> > AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor
>> > 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM
>> > Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU
>
> Did you reboot the system?
>
> BC
>


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Fr. Denis Carter SSC