On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 09:10 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > John Austin wrote: > > > Thus the USB memory stick has to be removed and re-inserted to regain access. > > > > For the USB disk you can just click on the icon > > > > 1. Why are the two "identical" devices treated differently? > > > > 2. Is there an easy method of changing all USB sticks > > to act the same as the USB Disk? > > > > Actually I just had this same problem, granted I was on Gentoo when this > happened, but I'd be willing to bet it's the same or similar problem. > With KDE it is capable of mounting those devices on it's own, so in some > cases hal/udev and KDE are competing against one another for mounting > the disk. The symptom in my case was that the drive kept moving mount > points from sda1 all the way down to sde1 over the course of an hour. > In my case the way to fix this was to turn of ivman so that it wouldn't > compete against KDE's kioslaves when mounting those USB drives I have. > > HTH. > > > Many thanks for the reply I have had a look round and cannot find any reference on my machine (F7) to ivman Google did bring up a reference that said "KDE 3.5 automount is worse than ivman on 3.4" so I have a feeling this isn't the cause Regards John
