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

[Richard England]

Carlos Alberto Alves wrote:
>
>
> Richard England wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> As I stated at the start of this thread, the drive can be mounted 
>> manually.  This is NOT a hardware issue.  When mounted manually it 
>> works fine in both FC6 and F7.
>> The problem is that it is not auto-detected and mounted like other 
>> devices are in FC6 and F7
>>
>> Yes it works in Windows....
>>
>> If it's broke [sic] in F7, then it's broken in FC6 as well....  I 
>> don't think this is a bug as much as it is a device that has not been 
>> encountered yet, and whose configuration is not yet know by HAL.  
>> I've not had the time to learn/research enough about HAL. Other fires 
>> are getting in the way.  If any one can give me a starting point or 
>> an example to study, it would be appreciated.
>>
>> If I decipher this then I'll submit an RFE.
>>
>> ~~R
>>
> Have just bought and install a new Seagate SATA II 160Gb HD with no 
> problems. I used fdisk to partition, format and create a ext3 file 
> system. I manually added a line in fstab just like the one below...
> /dev/sda1    /mnt/sata160    ext3    defaults        0 0
> My system is installed in an IDE Seagete 40Gb HD.
> HTH,

Thank you, Carlos, but my issue is with a Seagate USB external drive and 
I need to maintain it as VFAT for use with Windoze and Linux.

I appreciate your response, however.

~~R