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

[Karl Larsen]

Richard England wrote:
> 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
>
    I would never again own a Seagate hard drive. A question is, did 
Seagate make the hardware that gets the drive to be a USB type? I have a 
10GB old haed drive in a box from China that costs $19.00 and with the 
latest Updates it works great on F7.

    If you have all the Updates in your F7 the USB stuff is working 
fine. Your hardware should be found and mounted and a panel should 
appear that tells you what is on the device.

    If your hardware doesn't work find a friend with Windows and see if 
it works there. If it does bring it back. Something is still broke in F7.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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