*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 193154 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193154
Issues described are a result of this drive going to auto-sleep.
Changing duplicate marking to Bug #193154.
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 193154
Another Seagate FreeAgent needs allow_rest
I've tried the workaround unggnu suggested at comment #13
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-volume-
manager/+bug/126825/comments/13)
but when I launch the suggested script I receive this error:
fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied
FUSE mount point creation failed
Unmou
Another workaround, which allows to automount the HDD and make it appear in
media managers like the one in KDE. It seems that the main problem with the
drive is caused by the fact that the "storage" and "volume" devices do not
appear in HAL when the disk is remounted without disconnecting the po
Maybe this thread could help: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=494673.
Btw. the Freeagent only wake up for me after starting my script several times.
Another workaround would be to poll the UUID with hdparm -I several times
before running the mount command.
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external Seagate FreeAgent
A possible workaround could be an fstab entry with the UUID of the
Freeagent partition. You can get the UUID with 'sudo vol_id /dev/sdX1' .
/etc/fstab entry:
UUID=LONG_NUMBER /media/MOUNTPOINT FILESYSTEM user,defaults 0 0
The user-Option is needed to be able to mount the Freeagent hard disk w
I have made some tests. There seem to be two problems. One is a Kernel/Hal
problem and the other a Gnome-Vfs but the first one isn't so important if the
second one gets fixed.
If I unmount a Seagate Freeagent disk under Gnome it works fine but it has no
power button.
1. Freeagent Controller shut
It really doesn't seem to be a Seagate issue since it happens with my
other hard disks too but they have a power button so that the behavior
is the same like removing the power which works fine.
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external Seagate FreeAgent disk doesn't auto mount
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/126825
You recei
