USB removable media problem

[Todd Deshane]

On 7/13/05, R Kimber <rkimber at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:10:23 -0400
> Todd Deshane <deshantm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > /dev/sda4 /mnt/pd auto defaults,noauto,users 0 0
> >
> > you will need to mount and unmount manually.
> 
> But I used not to have to do that. The problem arises because, for
> some reason /dev/sda4 isn't created at boot. In the good old days /dev
> was automatically stuffed with entries like that and mounting was
> straightforward ;-)


The whole point of hotplug and udev and the rest of project utopia is
that you don't have the all the hundreds of entries in /dev that you don't
use and everything is supposed to just work. 
Maybe this thread could give some help...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=29441
It is for IDE, but as far as I can tell you are getting the usb part to
be detected.

Regards,
Todd

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