[ale] WD 120 GB USB drive

[James Taylor]

Are you sure it's not mounting?  The default behavior (for kde, anyway) is to not show mounted devices on the desktop.

I run Personal Settings|Desktop|Behavior and select Show device icons under the Device Icons tab.

I've formatted my USB drives with reiser, and I can't remember if I had a problem mounting them before that.

You should be able to go into the disk partition tool in yast|system to see if the device shows up and what type of partition it holds.

-jt

>>> On Sun, Oct 7, 2007 at  7:44 PM, in message
<a27cb2010710071644qa291456ue9951274a0aa2a40 at mail.gmail.com>, "mike barnes"
<mdb3624 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> I just installed opensuse 10.3 and have been fairly impressed with the ease
> of installation so far. However, I am unable to get my wife's Western
> Digital USB drive to be recognized. Any help would be appreciated since this
> is the last item on my list to convince the wife that LINUX is as good if
> not better than windows.
> 
> I am able to get the system to recognize USB flash drives so I think that
> the auto mounter is working (not sure what the /etc/fstab entry should be
> though)
> 
> Thanks
> Mike Barnes