OK, I've got back to this one again. Still can't see it eithre on the desktop or within Nautilus.
Anyone got any ideas how I can get it to appear? E -----Original Message----- From: Ian Pascoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 June 2007 21:33 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: RE: [ubuntu-uk] FW: USB Drives Hi Folks This is the output from DMESG that's relevant: [ 166.971816] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [ 167.148024] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 167.355842] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual [ 167.521034] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... [ 167.521236] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [ 167.521351] usb-storage: device found at 2 [ 167.521355] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning [ 167.521377] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 167.521382] USB Mass Storage support registered. [ 172.519752] usb-storage: device scan complete [ 172.654151] usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [ 172.938072] usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [ 173.225982] usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [ 173.505899] usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [ 811.740825] agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. [ 811.741410] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode [ 811.741860] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode [ 1298.786443] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2 [ 1386.208376] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 [ 1386.384570] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 1386.386686] scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [ 1386.386945] usb-storage: device found at 3 [ 1386.386951] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning And the output from MOUNT /dev/hdb2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777) procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hda1 on /media/hda1 type ntfs (rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46) /dev/hdb3 on /media/hdb3 type vfat (rw,utf8,umask=007,gid=46) /dev/hdb4 on /media/hdb4 type vfat (rw,utf8,umask=007,gid=46) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) If I'm reading these two logs right, it sees the USB device and gets the necessary drives up and running, but after that I don't understand it! E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Pope Sent: 05 June 2007 09:11 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] FW: USB Drives Hi Michael, On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 01:58 +0100, Michael Wood wrote: > I wouldn't bother with faffing around with dmesg output right yet. > In the chain of problem diagnosis it makes sense to use dmesg first because this is the first place the system reports the discovery of the device. Running dmesg takes no more or less time than fdisk, and could be more reliable - see below. > It's worth checking the output of the command fdisk -l (not run as sudo) > after you have plugged in the device. > If there is output then you will have all the info you need to mount it. > Not quite correct. There will always be output if you have any fixed disks, you will just get _more_ output once you have a USB disk attached. > if you get something like that you can manually mount it using `pmount > /dev/xxxx` > pmount isn't the way we mount disks anymore AIUI. We use gnome-volume-manager. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
