USB Drive

[Cyber Source]

FC2 automounted the usb drives (if selected in your preferences) and FC 
automounts them AND puts the shortcut on the desktop AND opens a window 
showing the content of the drive (again if selected in your preferences, 
about automounting). This is speaking of GNOME, I would imagine similar 
functionality in KDE.
Also, bear in mind that this is not just added functionality between 
Mandrake or FC but rather the newer 2.6 kernels that they both use. FC3 
comes with 2.6.9-1.667. FC3 also comes haldaemon, which can interact 
with hardware and change your /etc/fstab accordingly, and if you already 
have a line in your /etc/fstab with "managed", can further control the 
hardware with other options, but that's a story for a different day.
Scott, I sent you the previous email assuming that IF the drive had 
auto-mounted and popped up on the desktop you wouldnt have sent your 
original email. And if memory serves, you also have an older box that 
you have win98 and Mandrake 8 something? Probably running a 2.4? kernel. 
The usb stuff that I worked with between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels was 
really hit and miss from release to release, some worked well others 
didn't. If the drive doesn't show when doing a "dmesg", for the sake of 
simplicity and overall better outcome, it might be time to upgrade that 
box. We could do it at the next meeting, if we have one that is.
Frank, are you still offering your house?

Robert Meyer wrote:

>Well, with Mandrake 10.1 Official, you just plug the dang thing in and it shows
>up on your desktop.  The kernel autodetects it and it gets mounted.  KDE (and
>probably Gnome) creates an icon on the desktop for you.  When you unplug the
>drive, it just goes away.  I have no idea what happens if you unplug the drive
>when something is using the directory (like a shell CDed to the thing).
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>As a point of reference, Win XP Pro seems to do the same thing as Mandrake
>10.1.
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>That's the name of that tune.
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>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>--- Scott Lawton <green_man at bluefrog.biz> wrote:
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>>I have a Lexar USB [memory stick, key, pen, flash, jump - every mfg has 
>>their own name for the things] drive, that Win98SE incorrectly 
>>identifies as a USB Root Hub, then BSODs.
>>So much for Plug n Play !!
>>What do I have to do to get Linux to recognize the thing, hopefully as a 
>>removeable storage device ?
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>>How new does a motherboard have to be to boot from one ?
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>>hardware: n, the part of a computer that can be kicked.
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>>software: n, the part of a computer that causes hardware to be kicked.
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>>Scott
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