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

[steve]

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Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 22:38 -0400, steve wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Weird
> 
>> does anyone use a usb drive, and does it work?
> 
> Sure, several, all work fine.
> 
>> how does hardy mount usb drives by default?
> 
> What exactly do you mean, "how". If you want to know about the
> mechanism, it is done through a combination of HAL, udev, pmount,
> gnome-volume-manager, and possibly other components.
> 
> Debugging procedure are listed here. You will finds advice on how to
> capture needed information about what goes wrong:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingUSBStorage
> 
>> where does hardy mount usb drives?  (its not in /media   already looked
>> there)
> 
> They should be in /media, either under their volume label (if the disk
> has one) or a generic name like disk0. My USB devices all have volume
> labels and are mounted, e.g., as /media/HD300 or /media/Stick4
> 
>> USB drives use to automount and an icon would show on the desktop, why
>> was this removed?
> 
> It wasn't removed AFAIK. At least they should still automount. I am not
> entirely sure that the desktop icons are enabled by default. To make
> sure that they are:
> 
>       * Press Alt+F2
>       * When the run dialog comes up, type "gconf-editor" and run it
>       * In the tree pane to the left of the configuration editor,
>         navigate to /apps/nautilus/desktop and make sure that
>         "volumes_visible" has a check mark
> 
> 

thanks!

Ill give the debugging procedures a go.



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