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Automount Of Flash/USB does not work, Msg: ntfs signature is missing

Hi,
Auto mount of Flash/USB drive is not working. I tried mount 2-3 different drives but but I get same error message.

take the Example of this drive, I get this error while trying to mount via GUI.

#fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 8086 MB, 8086618112 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 983 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         984     7896064    b  W95 FAT32
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(982, 254, 63) logical=(983, 36, 13)

I do have hal running and earlier automount of devices used to work.

Output of dmesg

usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Corsair  Flash Voyager    0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 15794176 512-byte hardware sectors: (8.08 GB/7.53 GiB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

As you can see the logs show no errors, now lets try to mount it via CLI.

$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/external/
bash-4.0$ cd /media/external/
bash-4.0$ ls
irclogs                                                                                                 
linux_data_recovery.txt                                                                                 
log_files                                                                                               
niit
nnp2003.pdf
nvidia-180.51-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
nvidia-bug-report.log
nvidia-bug-report.log.old.gz
nvidia-utils-180.51-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
pacman_bug_report~
payment_error_screenshot.xcf
pic
pr2mar09no21.pdf
programs
scripts
sol_exploit
test
unixbench-4.1.0-wht-2
unixbench-4.1.0-wht.tar.gz
usr
v1.mp4
videos
vodafone_rc.pdf
zapSetup_80_059_000_en.exe

Works!!

why not from GUI?

System Details
KDE 4.3 on Archlinux 2.6.30 64bit

Last edited by cool (2009-08-11 17:34:33)