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).
It shows up in lsusb, and I can mount it manually, so why would it not mount automatically? Note that when I plug in other flash drives on the same machine before and after, they all get automounted as usual.
Curious....
mhr
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.
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
MHR wrote:
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....
Anything in the logs?
nate
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 10:46 -0700, nate wrote:
MHR wrote:
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....
Anything in the logs?
nate
I didn't think to look then, and I can't find anything there now.
Interesting side note: I have another drive that (still) has no label, amd CentOS mounts that one as /media/disk every time. Go figure.
mhr
On Saturday 23 August 2008 07:28:22 Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 10:46 -0700, nate wrote:
MHR wrote:
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....
Anything in the logs?
nate
I didn't think to look then, and I can't find anything there now.
Interesting side note: I have another drive that (still) has no label, amd CentOS mounts that one as /media/disk every time. Go figure.
Maybe the drive that doesn't mount doesn't announce itself correctly? Rather like the problem with some monitors. I believe I have read of such problems, but can't remember where. For automounting to work some info has to be read from the drive, I believe, so this does seem a possibility.
Anne
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 07:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 23 August 2008 07:28:22 Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 10:46 -0700, nate wrote:
MHR wrote:
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....
Anything in the logs?
nate
I didn't think to look then, and I can't find anything there now.
Interesting side note: I have another drive that (still) has no label, amd CentOS mounts that one as /media/disk every time. Go figure.
Maybe the drive that doesn't mount doesn't announce itself correctly? Rather like the problem with some monitors. I believe I have read of such problems, but can't remember where. For automounting to work some info has to be read from the drive, I believe, so this does seem a possibility.
Would you believe that I got that Xvfb issue resolved by installing CentOS?? <grins> Ric
On Saturday 23 August 2008 07:53:08 Ric Moore wrote:
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 07:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 23 August 2008 07:28:22 Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 10:46 -0700, nate wrote:
MHR wrote:
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....
Anything in the logs?
nate
I didn't think to look then, and I can't find anything there now.
Interesting side note: I have another drive that (still) has no label, amd CentOS mounts that one as /media/disk every time. Go figure.
Maybe the drive that doesn't mount doesn't announce itself correctly? Rather like the problem with some monitors. I believe I have read of such problems, but can't remember where. For automounting to work some info has to be read from the drive, I believe, so this does seem a possibility.
Would you believe that I got that Xvfb issue resolved by installing CentOS?? <grins> Ric
OTOH I got a new ViewSonic monitor, treating myself to one with a DV output. CentOS couldn't handle it and I had to got back to analogue :-(
Anne
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com wrote:
OTOH I got a new ViewSonic monitor, treating myself to one with a DV output. CentOS couldn't handle it and I had to got back to analogue :-(
I'm not entirely sure what this part of the thread has to do with the subject, but:
I got myself a new 22" 16x10 monitor, and I'm using the DVI cable (cleaner graphics, nicer picture), and the only "problem" I'm seeing is that it has a slow response coming out of power-down (screen-saver) state - it takes several seconds to bring up the login window, whereas the VGA cable used to give a pretty quick response (usually under 2 seconds) on this.
mhr
On Saturday 23 August 2008 19:04:55 MHR wrote:
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com
wrote:
OTOH I got a new ViewSonic monitor, treating myself to one with a DV output. CentOS couldn't handle it and I had to got back to analogue :-(
I'm not entirely sure what this part of the thread has to do with the subject, but:
I got myself a new 22" 16x10 monitor, and I'm using the DVI cable (cleaner graphics, nicer picture), and the only "problem" I'm seeing is that it has a slow response coming out of power-down (screen-saver) state - it takes several seconds to bring up the login window, whereas the VGA cable used to give a pretty quick response (usually under 2 seconds) on this.
It was a small aside about the way that devices do/don't announce themselves, and the difficulties that OSs sometimes have in recognising them. I freely admit that although I've had the monitor for at least 6 months now I haven't tested to see whether the DV input is now supported in the kernel, so I don't know whether it is a driver problem or the 'announce' problem.
It's not significant, in detail terms, to the thread, but there is some correlation.
Anne
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com wrote:
It was a small aside about the way that devices do/don't announce themselves, and the difficulties that OSs sometimes have in recognising them. I freely admit that although I've had the monitor for at least 6 months now I haven't tested to see whether the DV input is now supported in the kernel, so I don't know whether it is a driver problem or the 'announce' problem.
It's not significant, in detail terms, to the thread, but there is some correlation.
It might have something to do with your video card - not all of them have drivers that are flexible or considerate enough to just switch from one port to the other. Mine's an nvidia geForce 7100gs, and I am using the nvidia driver (not sure if I rebooted to the rpmforge one or am still running the nvidia original yet or not) but they seem to be rather accommodating.
HTH.
mhr
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