Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> Understood -- but then it's not right to say "Lacie Mobile driver is >> unknown to Fedora", it's completely willing to work with it as far as >> that goes. >> >> It seems some other piece of the puzzle is not willing to recognize it, >> apparently. Does a USB flash drive bring up the UI stuff? > Agree....about the title: but a standard user is lost at the mount command!!! > Generally other USB devices fire GUI, I have plugged a cheap Mp3 > player and it is o.k., I plugged another external USB disk and it is > fine....also cheap USB key are o.k Hum then the problem is off in the bit of the puzzle I don't understand much about. What does # hal-device have to say about your USB HDD, if anything? -Andy