Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu - Accessing Music from External Hard Drive

2008-07-30 Thread bcat
pablolie: Just so you know, the Seagate allow_restart bug has been fixed in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). Any udev workarounds you might have used can be safely removed. -- bcat bcat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/m

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu - Accessing Music from External Hard Drive

2008-07-28 Thread pablolie
i would also recommend going to the Ubuntu forums http://ubuntuforums.org/ and search for your particular drive. my Seagate external drive had a built-in incompatibility that would make it occasionally disappear, but a discussion thread about that particular drive helped me fix the issue. -- pa

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu - Accessing Music from External Hard Drive

2008-07-21 Thread socistep
Quick update ...problem now solved. I've mounted the drive through fstab and rescanned library, thanks both for your help Ian -- socistep socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View thi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu - Accessing Music from External Hard Drive

2008-07-20 Thread socistep
Hi Both, Thanks for the messages and advice, I've got family duties in the short term but will try fixing the issues out when I get time Ian -- socistep socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu - Accessing Music from External Hard Drive

2008-07-19 Thread SuperQ
External drives in Ubuntu will likely be mounted at login due to the way automatic mounting works. Since Squeezecenter starts at boot, you will either have to restart squeezecenter after the external drive is mounted on /media, or you will need to setup the mount configuration in /etc/fstab. Not

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu - Accessing Music from External Hard Drive

2008-07-19 Thread blazingtortoise
Hi Ian, Have you mounted the drive like this? for example: mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/external This is how I would mount partition sda1 under a folder called /mnt/external, assuming the drive is formatted as ext3. I can then browse to this in settings on squeezecentre. The drive shouldn't nee

[SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu - Accessing Music from External Hard Drive

2008-07-19 Thread socistep
Hi All, After a few set-up issues (helped through by this & the Ubuntu forum) I have got music streaming to my duet from Ubuntu (Hardy) and it sounds great. The majority of my music however is on an external hard drive and when I browse in SqueezeCenter I can't access the hard drive folders to s