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Penguino

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Registered: 2010-02-23

Posts: 4

LG USB drive won't (auto)mount

Hi guys,

This is my first post, and I'm not sure if this thread goes here, but anyways, I have a problem with my LG USB External Drive.

Ok, this is what happened. When I connected the drive the activity LED turned on but the volume didn't appear in Thunar, so I went to check if it was at least detected but neither GParted nor lsusb show the USB disk listed. I connected the drive to a netbook with Xubuntu 9.10 and it automounts correctly, also in the same netbook with Windows 7. I've been looking for information about evdev, udev, HAL and Xorg but I couldn't fix the error. The drive worked sporadically one month ago, but I reinstalled Arch and now it won't work.

Here is all the additional data.
* Desktop Environment: XFCE 4.6.1
* lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 043d:0057 Lexmark International, Inc. Z35 Printer
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 045e:070f Microsoft Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 18e3:9101 Fitipower Integrated Technology Inc 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

* rc.conf: http://dpaste.com/163807/
* mkinitcpio.conf:  http://dpaste.com/163810/
* xorg.conf: http://dpaste.com/163811/
* /etc/udev/rules.d/11-media-by-label-auto-mount.rules: http://dpaste.com/163815/

This is all I have (or I think so).

Thanks in advance

scar

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 444

Re: LG USB drive won't (auto)mount

can you post a

# dmesg | tail

that you print out just after plugging in external drive?

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Penguino

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Registered: 2010-02-23

Posts: 4

Re: LG USB drive won't (auto)mount

Hi scar,

This is the output.

sd 4:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 4:0:0:3: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
Adding 1951888k swap on /dev/sda3.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1951888k
forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
fuse init (API version 7.13)

Seems to be the disk is at least detected. Maybe I need further HAL/Udev configuration, well, what do you think?

Last edited by Penguino (2010-02-24 20:39:06)

Painless

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Registered: 2006-02-06

Posts: 234

Re: LG USB drive won't (auto)mount

Just out of interest, what filesystem are you using on this drive?

Penguino

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Registered: 2010-02-23

Posts: 4

Re: LG USB drive won't (auto)mount

I tried with both ext4 and FAT32, but I'm almost sure that's a HAL problem. I want DeviceKit in Arch