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

[Richard England]

Richard England wrote:
> 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
>
>

Whatever is going on with this Seagate USB drive is NOT new with F7. 

I hooked it up to an FC6 machine and had the same results, no desktop 
icon, no mount.

The system knows about the device, however.

 From /var/log/messages

Aug 12 16:32:35 poirot kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using 
ohci_hcd and address 6
Aug 12 16:32:42 poirot kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 
choice
Aug 12 16:32:43 poirot kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Aug 12 16:32:43 poirot kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
Storage devices
Aug 12 16:32:43 poirot kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver 
usb-storage
Aug 12 16:32:43 poirot kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Aug 12 16:32:49 poirot kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ST316002 
3A               8.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Aug 12 16:32:49 poirot kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte 
hardware sectors (160042 MB)
Aug 12 16:32:49 poirot kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Aug 12 16:32:49 poirot kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: 
write through
Aug 12 16:32:49 poirot kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte 
hardware sectors (160042 MB)
Aug 12 16:32:49 poirot kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Aug 12 16:32:49 poirot kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: 
write through
Aug 12 16:32:49 poirot kernel:  sda: sda1
Aug 12 16:32:49 poirot kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Aug 12 16:32:49 poirot kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0



$ /sbin/lsusb
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bc2:0502 Seagate RSS LLC
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000


It still sounds like a udev/hal  issue.

I've got
  idVendor           0x0bc2 Seagate RSS LLC
  idProduct          0x0502

Now I guess it means trying figure out how to automate the mount, etc.  
Tips, starting points, howtos, anyone?

~~R