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

[Jim Smith]

steve wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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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How are they formatted? FAT or FAT32 should mount OK, but if they are
ntfs you will need to install the ntfs tools via synaptic. Are they only
USB, or can you use 1394? I have a Maxtor 160GB pocket drive formatted
as ntfs and after installing the ntfs tools I can copy with a simple
copy and paste.

Keep trying.

YMMV
Jim