hardy, and usb drives, does anyone have one that works?

[Karl Larsen]

steve wrote:
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> I have 2 usb hard drives sitting collecting dust because I cannot figure
> out how to read and write to them.  1 is 80 gig seagate, and the other
> is 160 gig fantom.  Both HAVE worked on ubuntu in the past, from 5.x
> right up through gutsy.  now, I cant get either one to work.  They both
> seem to mount, as I get an entry in "places".  But, when you click on
> one of them the taskbar becomes unresponsive, non clickable, you need to
> reboot to get it back.  This install is about a month old, and updated.
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> does anyone use a usb drive, and does it work?
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> how does hardy mount usb drives by default?
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> where does hardy mount usb drives?  (its not in /media   already looked
> there)
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> USB drives use to automount and an icon would show on the desktop, why
> was this removed?
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> Thanks.
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> Steve Reilly
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>   
    I have a $15.00 plastic case with a 30 GB hard drive in it that 
works just great on Hardy and Gutsy. The hd has a ext3 file system I put 
on using the USB plug and it boots and does everything you expect from a 
backup system. I can read things on the display that comes up when I 
install it and it works just fine.

    The USB backup system works fine and I find the USB hd at /media/disk/.

    You must have serious problems with your Hardy.

Karl


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