[ale] WD 120 GB USB drive

[James Taylor]

I have mount points in the partition manager to make permanent mounts for usb drives, but I don't think that's what you want to do.

The device should be /dev/sda or /dev/sdb.  You can determine it with the partition utility in yast.
Once you find out how it is defined, you can try a manual mount form the command line to see if that works.

-jt

>>> On Sun, Oct 7, 2007 at  8:09 PM, in message
<a27cb2010710071709w6ba009beqa6fd7c86d3651b36 at mail.gmail.com>, "mike barnes"
<mdb3624 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Yes, am sure that it is not being mounted. I did not format the drive since
> it contains my wife's pictures and I would be killed if she lost these
> pictures.
> 
> What is interesting is that a USB flash drive works perfectly fine while
> this USB hard drive appears to not event be recognized.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 10/7/07, James Taylor <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
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