Automounting MP3 Player

max maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 02:14:30 UTC 2008


Dave Cross wrote:
> I have an iRiver MP3 player. Previously, when I have attached it to my
> Fedora system, it has been automatically recognised and mounted and an
> icon has appeared on the desktop.
> 
> Just now when I plugged it in, I didn't get any of that happening. I
> still got the following messages in /var/log/messages
> 
> Feb 25 21:25:15 giles kernel: usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using
> ehci_hcd and address 109
> Feb 25 21:25:15 giles kernel: usb 1-7: configuration #2 chosen from 1 choice
> Feb 25 21:25:15 giles kernel: scsi14 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
> Storage devices
> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: scsi 14:0:0:0: Direct-Access     TOSHIBA
>  MK4004GAH        JC00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] 78126048 512-byte
> hardware sectors (40001 MB)
> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache:
> write through
> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] 78126048 512-byte
> hardware sectors (40001 MB)
> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache:
> write through
> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel:  sdc: sdc1 < sdc5 >
> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
> Feb 25 21:25:20 giles kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
> 
> And I can still get access to the player by manually mounting
> /dev/sdc5 to the appropriate directory. But it used to be an automatic
> process and I'd like to get that functionality back.
> 
> I recently did a clean installation of Fedora 8 onto this system. I'm
> pretty sure that it has worked since the upgrade (but I can't be 100%
> sure of that).
> 
> Any advice appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave...
> 
System>Preferences>Hardware>Removable Drives and Media

See what options are selected.

Max




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