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Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Sat Jun 13 14:29:20 UTC 2009


Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Partha wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 08:29:34AM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>  
>>>        I have another problem! The thumb drives are not being properly
>>>        detected. They show up in lsusb are listed under Gnome "Places"
>>>        but do not appear on the desktop? I believe they should show up
>>>        under /media, ll or cd there results in "No such file or 
>>> directory"
>>>
>>>        I'm beginning to think I've found a computer that doesn't work
>>>        with Linux? Is there such a thing ... If there is I would 
>>> find it!
>>>
>>>     
>>
>>
>>
>> when you plug them in does something appear in /var/log/messages ?
>>   
> Yes, when I plug [a 2 gig] in usb 1-8: Product: Disk 2.0
> Also lists Manufacturer and SerialNumber on sequent lines.
>> what does fdisk -l show ?
>>   
> /dev/sdb1        W95  Fat32
>
> I thought that was the windows partition but now I see it's a 
> different drive and must be the thumb drive. But I can't mount 
> /dev/sdb1   it's not in fstab?
>> can you mount them manually ?
>>
>>   
>
> What do you think I should do next? Those things have always "just 
> worked."
>
> Bob
>
>
        Ok, I see on a "good" computer when I plug in a thumb drive it
        is listed in fstab. This is not happening on the "problem" computer!

        Bob





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