Microdrive in PCMCIA adaptor won't automount.

[Neil Woolford]

F0CUS <ulist <at> gs1.ubuntuforums.org> writes:

> 
> 
> I am having this problem too... any solution? how do I add sometihng to
> the pmount.allow lost?
> 

Ok.  There is now a bug open and assigned to a team member, so this should get
fixed.

In the meantime, Florian Diesch's suggestion of adding the drive to the file
/etc/pmount.allow does work for me.

In steps;

First find out what device your system sees the drive as.  To do this insert the
drive and adaptor into the card slot.  Now go to Places=>Computer where you will
see the drive.  Try to open it.  The error message will tell you that there is a
problem with /dev/hdxn where x and n are a letter and a number (for example on
my system /dev/hde1, but yours will almost certainly be different).

Now, as a user with administrative rights (normally the first user registered
when you set up the system) use a text editor started with sudo to add this name
to /etc/pmount.allow.

If you are a beginner, do it with these exact steps.

Press Alt and then F2 to get a little window titled Run Application.  In it type 
"gksudo gedit /etc/pmount.allow" (without the quotes).  You will be asked for a
password, your password.

The editor window appears.  There won't be much in the file.  Add the name of
your device (for example /dev/hde1) on its own on a line at the end of the file.

Save the edited file and close the editor.

After this, your computer should recognise the microdrive when it is plugged in,
and automatically mount it after a few seconds.  NB  You still need to unmount
it before removing it to be completely sure of not loosing data...

Neil