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

[Richard England]

Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 21:56 -0700, Richard England wrote:
>   
>> 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. 
>>     
>
> How are your "removable drives and media" preferences set?  That's its
> title in Gnome, KDE will probably have something similar.  I can't
> remember whether you use one of them.
>
>   

I am using Gnome:

Removable Drive and Media Preferences are set to allow the following for
 "Removable Storage"
  Mount removable drives when hot-plugged
  Mount removable media when inserted
  Browse removable media when inserted

"Blank CD and DVD Disks"
  {nothing selected]

~~R