How can you get a Seagate USB 160 GB drive to mount?

[rlengland at verizon.net]

>From: Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>
>Date: 2007/08/10 Fri AM 07:17:19 CDT
>To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: How can you get a Seagate  USB 160 GB drive to mount?

>
>> I don't think that's correct.  At least in KDE, it will automount to
>> /media/disk(-n) [n would be a number, if there are multiple unlabeled disks]
>
>thats actually configurable. If you right click on the desktop icon that 
>appears when you plug the drive in (assuming it does) you can alter the 
>mount point to whatever you want. Then in the future whenever you plug 
>the device in, it will get mounted at that location.
>
>Chris
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Thanks Chris, but there was no icon. The lack of desktop icon was my first indication that something wasn't functioning the same as for other devices.  Even automounted  internal hard drives have been creating those icons but this USB device did not.

~R

~~R