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schmmd

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From: Seattle

Registered: 2006-03-25

Posts: 55

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Mounting USB Devices Hangs

Hi, when I plug in a usb device to my laptop it seems to be detected correctly when I view 'dmesg'.  However, the following command hangs with both my pendrive and my ipod.

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

I know there is nothing physically wrong because if I boot into a Linux Mint livecd (basically Ubuntu), it works fine.  This also worked previously (an older version before my hard drive crashed) with Arch on my Thinkpad X31, although before I was running the thinkpad kernel.  The only other difference is that my hard drive now registers as /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda.  Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?

tmadhavan

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From: Wales :D

Registered: 2004-03-26

Posts: 441

Re: Mounting USB Devices Hangs

My disks are all sdx these days too, I wouldn't worry about it. I thought it was just my SATA disks that were coming up like that, but it's my ATA ones too

As for the mounting - not sure why it would be hanging, maybe there are some extra mount options you need? What sort of usb stick is it? My /etc/fstab option for mounting of /mnt/usb are

 
user,noauto,noatime,unhide 0 0

But to be honest I just nicked that from somewhere else....

T-u-N-i-X

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From: İstanbul

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 435

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Re: Mounting USB Devices Hangs

I have those hangups too... Whenever I plug a USB external storage device, it hangs for 2-3 minutes then comeback... Everything becomes normal then... I've entered a bug report about it but nothing changed..

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schmmd

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From: Seattle

Registered: 2006-03-25

Posts: 55

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Re: Mounting USB Devices Hangs

Hmmm... it comes back...

Thanks for the info.  Although this clearly is a bug, maybe I'm also too impatient ;-)