Re: USB drives not recognised or automounted.
Dibl,
Right then, some more info.
Anyway, I switched off the PC and rebooted. I went to have a dig around in the BIOS.
In there, I could see that everything was detected. Three identical internal 400GB drives, two USB attached external drives (although they showed up as internal drives), both DVD-RW and DVD-ROM drives. Everything was there.
Then I booted up and chose the older kernel.
Booting back in to Kubuntu, I can now see all three SATA drives. QtParted shows them all. My external USB drives are not shown though - so this problem still exists, even with the older kernel.
This would suggest that the USB problem is not kernel-specific but more linked to the installation of K/Ubuntu, yes?
So how can I track this down further?
[list][*]The USB drives are recognised by the BIOS.[*]They are detected by the kernel and are reported by "lsusb" - they also show up in dmesg when physically connected and disconnected.
Struggling here. Any ideas anyone?
Bag.
Dibl,
Right then, some more info.
Anyway, I switched off the PC and rebooted. I went to have a dig around in the BIOS.
In there, I could see that everything was detected. Three identical internal 400GB drives, two USB attached external drives (although they showed up as internal drives), both DVD-RW and DVD-ROM drives. Everything was there.
Then I booted up and chose the older kernel.
Booting back in to Kubuntu, I can now see all three SATA drives. QtParted shows them all. My external USB drives are not shown though - so this problem still exists, even with the older kernel.
This would suggest that the USB problem is not kernel-specific but more linked to the installation of K/Ubuntu, yes?
So how can I track this down further?
[list][*]The USB drives are recognised by the BIOS.[*]They are detected by the kernel and are reported by "lsusb" - they also show up in dmesg when physically connected and disconnected.
- They don't seem to be assigned a device identifier (eg /dev/sda1) etc. (How can I make double-sure of that??)
- Without being assigned an identifier, they can't be given a mount point... is this right?
Struggling here. Any ideas anyone?
Bag.
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