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[scsijon <scsijon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apologies for hijacking but just came across this in my freshmeat lists

[074] - usb-mount 0.8
  by Michael Hamilton (http://freshmeat.net/users/mch/)
  Saturday, March 20th 2004 23:10



About: usb-mount provides desktop integration for systems  using the
hotplug scripts and the KDE desktop. It automatically mounts and unmounts
USB storage partitions and modifies the user's desktop, via the addition
of icons representing USB storage device partitions. The user can interact
with the storage device by opening the desktop icons to reveal the folders
corresponding to each partition. Each partition's mount status can be
altered by using icon control options.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/usbmount/


this may be of use to us all, or at least those using kde
apologies again
scsijon


At 02:50 AM 22/03/2004, Basil Chupin wrote:
> Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
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> > On 03/21/2004 08:21 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > |Yes, I have always mounted it as /media/sda1, and for the new one Suse
> > |has created 4 icons on the Desktop sda1 --> sda4 but won't mount any of
> > |them and, in fact, locks the computer up after a minute or so where the
> > |only way out is the Big Red Button Damn annoying!
> > This sounds like the driver for that usb device is not in the kernel.
> > Do a tail -f /var/log/messages when you plug it in and see if it says
> > something like "not claimed by any driver".  If this is the case, you
> > would need to update the kernel for it to work (if it is supported in a
> > newer kernel), or wait til it is supported.  If there is no driver
> > support in the kernel for that device, it is not SuSE's fault, nor even
> > the kernel developers, but the manufacturers.  I'll bet it came with
> > drivers for Win98.  With Linux they don't even need to distribute their
> > driver, just give the kernel developers the info they need to support it.
>
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> The info produced by tail is-
>
> Warning: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> USB mass storage device found at 2
> USB mass storage support registered
> using /lib/modules/2.4.21-199-athlon/,,,,,,/usb-storage.o
> Symbol version prefix ''
> Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> SCSI device sda: 512000 5a2-byte hdwr sectors (262MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
>
> So, it would appear that it is being recognised, but not completely.
>
> Another strange thing with this exercise of doing the tail. I plugged in 
> the flash disk while logged in a normal user then went the CTRL-ALT-F2 way 
> to login as root to do the tail thingie. What was strange is that after 
> the info got printed out to screen I did not return to the normal command 
> prompt but instead the cursor kept blinking on an empty line; typing in mc 
> (for midnight commander) produced no result nor did typing in exit. C-A-F7 
> got me back to the Desktop so that I could type this message - but in 
> C-A-F2 the cursor is still blinking on a blank line.
>
> Cheers.
>
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