[Bug 297338] Re: Sugar does not see/mount USB Flash drive

[mungewell]

After lfaraone said it worked for him, I tried a few couple of different
USB sticks, both worked OK but the original one still failed.

Lexar 1GByte - worked, mounted first partition of 2 (sdb1 = VFAT) and displayed the contents of /media/LEXAR/syslinux (yes this is a Fedora bootable USB of Sugar ;-)
Unbranded 2GByte - worked, mounted first partition of 2 (sdb1 = VFAT) and displayed the contents of /media/live/casper (bootable Ubuntu Sugar)
Sandisk Cruzer 4GByte - failed. 1 partition (sdb1 = VFAT), USB-ID 0x0781:5406

Maybe this is just a problem with larger size USB drives, or with Sandisk specifically.
Simon.

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Sugar does not see/mount USB Flash drive
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Status in “sugar” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: sugar

When inserted a USB Flash key is not seen by Sugar/Sugar-Emulator (it should show up the bottom bar of Journal, see http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/BackingUp), instead the USB Flash drive is mounted by the underlying OS.

At a (wild) guess there will need to be some HAL tinkering to ensure that Sugar gets notified and the underlying OS does not.
Mungewell.