Hi Robert, On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:54, Robert Barbour wrote:
> The only indication I can find that the USB port is detected is when I go > into system information and it tells me the name of the memory stick - > presumably this is the 'volume label' allocated by the friend who provided > the stick. > So the physical hardware seems to be working OK. (on my SuSE 10 box, and IIRC SuSE 9.1, I can hot plug USB memory cards - the system automaticaly mounts them). What does mount show? What happens when you try to manually mount the disk (typically it will be mapped to the first free SCSI device - e.g. /dev/sda)? Try watching /var/log/messages while you plug it in (open a konsole window and type in su (your root password) tail -f /var/log/messages Can you access the disk from a different machine / a different operating system? Since your machine is detecting the disk, this rather suggests that it doesn't like the format of the disk (IIRC this came up on the list about a year ago - the poster resolved the problem by reformatting as a DOS disk). HTH C. _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish