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zraffz
23rd January 2007, 02:43 AM
I have a problem where my one (seperate) hard drive which was strictly for linux can read my USB Mass Storage Device, but I recently installed Fedora on my main Windows HD and now it doesn't detect on the main HD (which is also running Fedora).
Any ideas why?
silvagroup
23rd January 2007, 03:58 AM
If you haven't updated your system to the latest kernels and software do that now then I would recommend rebooting and seeing if problem goes away.
zraffz
23rd January 2007, 10:44 PM

If you haven't updated your system to the latest kernels and software do that now then I would recommend rebooting and seeing if problem goes away.
I have updated about 3 days ago, however I haven't switched to Fedora 6.
silvagroup
24th January 2007, 06:31 AM
FC6 has some problems right now on some hardware detecting usb, some dvd and cd/dvd combo's. If one of your installs is FC5 it should work OK. Depends on kernel versions. The earlier the less chance of problems so it maybe the problem check this post for more info and possible temp fix http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=133502.
Jim March
24th January 2007, 08:12 PM
Some recent update to FC6 seems to have broken our ability to autodetect USB disks of various sorts.

When I first installed FC6 about a month ago it worked, and then it broke. It appears to be one of the kernel updates.

While I don't understand just what this code does, another thread pointed to this:

su -
chmod 000 /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/gparted-disable-automount.fdi
service haldaemon restart

...and it worked for me. NOTE: the original code didn't start with "SU" and apparantly assumed you'd run this as root. I did it as my normal user account with SU as I've quoted above and it worked.

I am told this is a one-time fix, rather than something that needs to be done each time I play with USB disks/flash/etc.

Try it.

The symptoms in my case: inserting the keychain flash device triggered the usual "lightshow" on the keychain's LED, but it didn't automount or complain when I pulled it out. Shutting down, inserting the flash drive with the machine cold and starting it back up didn't help.
silvagroup
24th January 2007, 10:33 PM
the most recent update has done nothing to fix the problems either. It appears the best fix is to go back several kernels and aotofs as well. :( :(