Observe your LED to determine its pattern. Plug it in and see if the light is on or off. Then save a file to it and see what the light does.
on my stock 10.1, my usb key do as expected, that is the light blink when files are written. but after that (and before) the light blinks slowly. It get mounted (now as sdb, don't know if it's all the time, I have others usb devices) on /media/keyname I can see it in /media, of course, but also in the "service" konqueror system, mass storage, also by it's name (the name is given in windows XP for vfat system). On the service/mass storage/name, right clicking on neme I have a "enlever en toute sécurité" menu. I don't know what is the english counterpart, but this is in french the very same name as XP :-) validating this menu entry unmount the key. it no more blink, no more appear anywhere, need to be un plugged and replugged to access I had no time to look at this in deep, but in 10.0 I had to tweek the Hal config to have no sync between my computer and usb system for speed reason. I have also a "sync" application on on the desktop for safe disconnect of all the devices jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com