<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Brian Mury wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1214955664.3435.21.camel@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 17:58 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">It looks from the messages that it is being properly detected, but HAL is not mounting it. While it does not explain the problem, you </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> lsusb shows it as "Feiya Technology Corp. Memory Bar". Google found this, and some other similar pages: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=443674&page=2">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=443674&page=2</a> Unfortunately that fix didn't work for me - the entry in 10-usb-music-players.fdi does not exist. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">may be able to get it to mount if you give it a label. For the FAT file system used on most memory sticks, it is easy to do in Windows, but it is a bit complicated to do in Linux. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I tried it in Windows, it appears to already have a label ("CORSAIR"). If I mount it from the shell, as root, it shows up as "8.1 GB Media", no name... and the "USB Drive" is still there and unmountable (that is, there are two separate GNOME icons after mounting). It is formatted as FAT32, BTW, so that should be ok. =============================== Ok... This is strange... While writing this email, I was moving the drive back and forth between a Windows and a Fedora box. I mounted it as root, wrote a short text file to it, moved it to Windows, edited the file, moved it back to Fedora and it worked... Tried unplugging/plugging a few tries and it seems fine. Weird </pre> </blockquote> <blockquote cite="mid:1214955664.3435.21.camel@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> So now it mounts as a non-root user? Or was it never unmounted but just yanked from the machine? Sounds like a permissions problem with your mounting as a non-root user. K </body> </html>