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

[Richard England]

rlengland at verizon.net wrote:
>> From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>
>> Date: 2007/08/10 Fri AM 10:52:30 CDT
>> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: How can you get a Seagate  USB 160 GB drive to mount?
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>> rlengland at verizon.net wrote:
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>>> I created the fstab entry only to test whether the device worked.
>>> I'll remove it.
>>>
>>> I don't think I've placed a label on an external device after the
>>> fact. What is the procedure? And does it have any harmful effects on
>>> data on the device?
>>>
>>> This drive has someone's complete audio collection on it and they
>>> would prefer to not loose it. :-)
>>>
>>>       
>> How to do it depends on the file system. For 2e/e3 file systems,
>> e2label will add a label without affecting the file system. For
>> (V)FAT file systems, I have not found a good way to add a label
>> under Linux. You can add one under windows without any problems.
>>
>> Mikkel
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> It's VFAT.   I'll have to wait till I get back to the machine tonight and connect it to my one lone Windoze box.
>
> Thank you Mikkel.  I'll report on the results.
>
> ~~R
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The drive had a label of "SEAGATE". I changed it, just to be certain, to 
"USB_SEAGATE" and remove the /etc/fstab entry for /dev/sdc1.   Setting  
/etc/mtools.conf  and using mlabel as Tim and Matthew suggested, worked 
fine.

Upon unplugging and replugging, however,I had the same results. No 
desktop icon, no mount.

/var/log/messages shows

Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: scsi 15:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ST316002 
3A               8.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] 312581808 512-byte 
hardware sectors (160042 MB)
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: 
write through
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] 312581808 512-byte 
hardware sectors (160042 MB)
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: 
write through
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel:  sdc: sdc1
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0

so the USB system is seeing it and assign /dev/sdc1 to it.  Also, it is 
visible to lsusb;

$ /sbin/lsusb
Bus 005 Device 018: ID 0bc2:0502 Seagate RSS LLC                  
<--------------
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0409:0059 NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:3611 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Any further clues, anyone?

~~R