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

[Rod McLean]

I'm not sure whether yours is the same problem I had with a 120 Gb Lacie
HD, but for what it is worth, I read somewhere that I should try
plugging it into a Windows PC then use the "Safely remove hardware"
procedure. That cured my problem. Both partitions now always appear at
startup.
Rod.


On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 22:38 -0400, 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.
> 
> 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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> http://reillyblog.com
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