Both USB drives not recognised

[FataMorgana]

I have searced and read some problems that other people have, but their solutions didn't help me much, which brings me here to your mercy.

I have two USB sticks. One is Creative MuVo MP3 player that can be used as a stick also, and the other one is Sony MicroVault 2.0. When I insert them, I can hear a sound that HDD makes (kind of like scratching sound) which tells me that it found the drive, but it doesn't display it on the desktop. I can also see it when I go to System Tools > Hardware Browser.

I'm using Red Hat 9 with GNOME v2.0. Clean install - no dual boots.

[wintersm]

Err umm.. check /var/log/messages when you insert..

as root
tail -f /var/log/messages

or, upgrade to fc5, usb disks definatly work there..

[FataMorgana]

yeah,, here is what I got:

Aug 22 22:52:59 localhost kernel: UDF-fs: No VRS found
Aug 22 23:03:42 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-2, assigned address 3
Aug 22 23:03:45 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product 54c/19d/100
Aug 22 23:03:47 localhost devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted
Aug 22 23:04:03 localhost su(pam_unix)[5710]: session opened for user root by sinan(uid=500)

its there, but I can't find it.

thx btw

[ccrvic]

Originally Posted by FataMorgana

I'm using Red Hat 9

Don't.

RH9 was obsoleted in April 2004. That's two and a half years ago. There have been many security updates since then - you aren't getting them.

Upgrade your box to something current, and you'll find many of your problems just go away.

Vic.

[FataMorgana]

I see.
2004 eh?

OK...I'll see if I can download Fedora or install Ubuntu.