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    Cannot mount USB Drive

    Can someone help me. I have a 100gb Seagate USB external drive formatted FAT32. I keep mp3's on it. I have not been able to get it recognized or mounted with Kubuntu since ver. 6.1. I am now using 8.04 KDE4. This drive works fine in Windows 2000 or XP. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

    #2
    Re: Cannot mount USB Drive

    With the drive plugged in and powered on, boot Kubuntu, and then open the Konsole and enter
    Code:
    lsusb
    Post the output here, please.

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      #3
      Re: Cannot mount USB Drive

      This is the result


      Bus 002 Device 007: ID 0bc2:0501 Seagate RSS LLC
      Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
      Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
      Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c408 Logitech, Inc. Marble Mouse (4-button)
      Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c317 Logitech, Inc.
      Bus 001 Device 006: ID 03f0:6104 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 5650c
      Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

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        #4
        Re: Cannot mount USB Drive

        Interesting!

        I have no USB recognition (no headset, no memory stick etc.)
        But I followed the suggestion posted by Dibl and got an output similar to yours:

        Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia
        Bus 002 Device 002: ID 13fe:1a00 Kingston Technology Company Inc. 512MB/1GB Flash Drive
        Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
        Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

        IN other words, somewhere in there, there is recognition!
        I am booting with the word "noapic" appended to the kernel line in the grub (because otherwise my laptop's screen would go black)
        This "noapic " is known to disable USB. In Gutsy, the additional "irqpoll" brought back the USB. No such luck now in Hardy.
        These abracadabra words mean nothing to me - but this was all well documented by others who apparently knew what they were doing.

        Is this something that is familiar to you?

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          #5
          Re: Cannot mount USB Drive

          YES!

          I removed the "noapic" from the grub, and lo and behold:
          a) there was no black screen
          b) the USBs are all nicely recognised!

          The implications are - and somebody should post news of this in a visible place - that those of us dual-booting laptop users who had to add that "noapic", and who are upgrading from Gutsy (i.e. not running a clean install) have to actively remove the "noapic"!

          Hope this solves your problem too.

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