Automounting MP3 Player

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Dave Cross wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Dave Cross <davorg at gmail.com> 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
> 
> [ snip ]
> 
>>  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).
> 
> This gets weirder. This morning I rebooted the system, and everything
> started working fine. When I plugged in the iRiver it was
> automatically mounted and an icon appeared on the desktop.
> 
> When I got home this evening and tried again, it had stopped working.
> It was behaving the same way as I described yesterday. The computer
> has been on all day with no-one using it.
> 
> Not sure what is going on.
> 
> Dave...
> 

Are you sure the iRiver isn't failing? Does it work well when attached 
to another computer? I'd plug it into a different machine ( more than 
once) to make sure it performs as expected on a consistent basis. Are 
you always plugging into the same USB port? have you tried others? What 
other troubleshooting have you done?


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