Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)

andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Yesterday, I bought a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent (external) USB hard
> drive. I plugged it in, downloaded the necessary ntfs-3g driver and
> all was fine. Today I plug it in and my Lenny system can't find it at
> all. There is nothing loaded on media and it seems that as far as my
> system is concerned, it has ceased to exist.
>
> How can I load this manually and how can I prevent this from happening
> again? I am not even sure how to debug this, so any help on that score
> would be useful too. It has something like 100GB of data on it from
> yesterday which I am extremely loathe to lose.
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> Andy
>

This is the next exciting instalment:

I rebooted and then once I went into the filesystem I saw that the system recognised it, but did not automount it. This is something that I have noticed in the last while - USB data sticks are not being automounted the way they used to be (although, I cannot determine a turning point in this). They used to trigger an icon to be placed on my Gnome desktop once I inserted the stick but now I have to manually open the filesystem and click on the USB drive to mount it. I have double checked my prefs under Gnome for storage devices, and the option to automount and auto-browse are selected, so I don't know what is going on with that.

Anyway, crisis with the FreeAgent drive is over. Now I only have this mild curiosity re: the automount/auto-browse issue. Anyone have some light to shine on this?

Cheers.

Andy

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