Lacie Mobile driver is unknown to Fedora

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Antonio wrote:
> 2007/10/14, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>:
>> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 09:42 +0200, Antonio wrote:
>>> if my Fedora would read the label (LACIE in Windows) ........ :-)
>>>
>>> And if I issue a mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt i can read my Folders.....so
>>> device is not empty.
>>> Another LACIE drive (not same model...) works fine
>> You aren't trying to connect two drives at the same time with the same
>> volume name?
> 
> Of course not!!! I connected the external USB drive to two different
> PC with no other USB drive
>> Just to see what happens, if you can, connect the problem drive to the
>> Windows box, and rename it.  Now, see if it works in Linux.
>>
>>
> 
> Funny: it did the trick.....renaming label was sufficient to have my
> USB disk appearing on my Linux boxes....it is a kind of magic, isn't
> it???

WAG - could HAL be keeping tract of the disk ID/LABEL and not
mounting a different disk with the same label? Do you know how long
it was between unplugging one drive with the LACIE label and
plugging in the next one? It sure sounds like a HAL bug.

Mikkel
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