hardy, and usb drives, does anyone have one that works?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 22:38 -0400, steve wrote:
> They both seem to mount, as I get an entry in "places".  But, when you click on
> one of them the taskbar becomes unresponsive, non clickable, you need to
> reboot to get it back.  This install is about a month old, and updated.

Weird

> does anyone use a usb drive, and does it work?

Sure, several, all work fine.

> how does hardy mount usb drives by default?

What exactly do you mean, "how". If you want to know about the
mechanism, it is done through a combination of HAL, udev, pmount,
gnome-volume-manager, and possibly other components.

Debugging procedure are listed here. You will finds advice on how to
capture needed information about what goes wrong:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingUSBStorage

> where does hardy mount usb drives?  (its not in /media   already looked
> there)

They should be in /media, either under their volume label (if the disk
has one) or a generic name like disk0. My USB devices all have volume
labels and are mounted, e.g., as /media/HD300 or /media/Stick4

> USB drives use to automount and an icon would show on the desktop, why
> was this removed?

It wasn't removed AFAIK. At least they should still automount. I am not
entirely sure that the desktop icons are enabled by default. To make
sure that they are:

      * Press Alt+F2
      * When the run dialog comes up, type "gconf-editor" and run it
      * In the tree pane to the left of the configuration editor,
        navigate to /apps/nautilus/desktop and make sure that
        "volumes_visible" has a check mark