On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Dan Halbert halbert@everyzing.com wrote:
MHR wrote:
I have a brand new, unaltered (as yet) 4Gb USB flash drive from Micro Center that does not get automounted when I plug it into my 5.2 desktop (home or work).
The 1GB flash drive I got from Micro Center a while ago had was a U3 drive, so it mounts as both a CD-ROM and a R/W drive. I'm not sure if that's the problem here. What happens if you try it on Windows? You can get (Windows) software to turn off the U3 stuff from http://www.u3.com.
No U3 issues. On Windows it shows up as an unlabeled removable drive. I put a label on it, then took it back to my CentOS desktop and voila! Automounted and ready to go.
So, is this a bug in the automounter? Is there a reason why a removable (flash) drive MUST have a label for the automounter to see it? This doesn't happen with flash memory cards (compact flash, SD), just USB flash (disk) drives. Seems funky....
mhr