Somebody in the thread at some point said: > I purchased a 80GB hi-speed Hard drive (USB2.0), but when I plug it, I > get only (from lsusb) > Bus 005 Device 007: ID 04b4:6830 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. USB-2.0 IDE Adapter > > and from var/log/messages : > > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access Hitachi > HTS541680J9AT00 0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 156301488 512-byte > hardware sectors (80026 MB) > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: > write through > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 156301488 512-byte > hardware sectors (80026 MB) > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: > write through > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sdb: sdb1 > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk > Oct 13 16:24:43 Casa kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 Well that is perfectly fine as far as it goes -- it is recognized as a Mass Storage Class Driver device and SCSI partitions are allocated. # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt for example should mount it at /mnt If the issue is it doesn't trigger the mounting GUI stuff, I guess that is down to the hal or udev stuff that I don't really understand much about at the moment. -Andy
