How can you get a Seagate USB 160 GB drive to mount?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Chris Jones wrote:
> 
>> I don't think that's correct.  At least in KDE, it will automount to
>> /media/disk(-n) [n would be a number, if there are multiple unlabeled
>> disks]
> 
> thats actually configurable. If you right click on the desktop icon that
> appears when you plug the drive in (assuming it does) you can alter the
> mount point to whatever you want.

But doesn't that require the device to have a unique name?  If different
drives appear as /dev/sdb , the only way to distinguish them is label
(which KDE can use) or UUID (which I don't think it does).

Matt Flaschen