Seagate USB disk does not automount

[jack craig]

On 05/27/2010 09:48 AM, Tom Diehl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a new seagate external USB disk that does not mount when plugged in
> to my F-12 machine. I can mount it by hand and access it normally.
>
> Does anyone have instructions for adding udev rules or whatever it takes
> to get this to automount when plugged in?
>
> dmesg shows the following:
> usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
> usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=3300
> usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> usb 1-3: Product: Desktop
> usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Seagate
> usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 2GHL7D7A
> usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
>
> lsusb -v shows the following:
>
>
>
>    
I know this sounds wacky, but trying putting a file system label on your 
seagate fs?
I had this problem and doing a e2label made the automount work.

YMMV, good luck, jackc...

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Jack Craig
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