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

[Bart Silverstrim]

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.

Very weird...I've a Patriot USB thumbdrive that works fine, and 2 
external drives from WD (the drivebooks), and 1 external drive enclosure 
that I stuck in a generic 40 gig drive and it came up fine as well.

> does anyone use a usb drive, and does it work?

See above.

> how does hardy mount usb drives by default?

On the desktop, and in the filesystem in /media, using...off the top of 
my head I don't remember, but it's the automounting daemon handling it. 
I just plug them in.

> where does hardy mount usb drives?  (its not in /media   already looked
> there)

ls /media
cdrom  cdrom0  cdrom1  disk  disk-1

disk and disk-1 are my 250 gig USB drives.

> USB drives use to automount and an icon would show on the desktop, why
> was this removed?

What is in your logs? My 8.04 is almost completely up to date...I see 
the updater icon in my toolbar this morning, but wasn't there yesterday.

I did have a short term problem with...I think it was the avahi daemon 
not seeing my drives that were plugged in and powered up until I logged 
off and back in after a few minutes, or I'd have to try unplugging and 
plugging in the drives a couple times. But that seemed to be fixed after 
a couple updates came out a week or two later.

-Bart