Maxtor Basics External Hard Drive

[AlaricP]

Hi,

I've just tried to plug my 160GB Maxtor Basics external hard drive into my laptop (Fujitsu/Siemens Amilo running Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon). Kubuntu recognises drive and displays a usb-key type icon, but it wont open the drive. When I try I get the error hal-storage-removable-mount-all-options refused uid 1001. I have successfully used Kubuntu with other storage devices (160GB Freecom). I have successfully used the Maxtor drive with Windows XP, so I am pretty sure the drive works ... just not with my Kubuntu.

Any help much appreciated.
Alaric

[Qqmike]

Re: Maxtor Basics External Hard Drive

Did you try the usual

K > System Settings > Advanced > Disk & Filesystems, Administrator Mode, right-click on the drive, Modify, set a mount point (eg, /media/usbxyz), change permission to "every one can do anything," click Writeable, OK, back out, Enable, Exit out, and try it?

[AlaricP]

Re: Maxtor Basics External Hard Drive

Thanks Qqmike, that sorted out the problem.

Alaric

[v_override]

Re: Maxtor Basics External Hard Drive

click Writeable, OK, back out, Enable, Exit out, and try it?

"The usual"

rolf....

I just had the same problem with my Maxtor and did it with the sudo mount ntfs-3g command....
same thing.....

Ain't great living in a free world

[Qqmike]

Re: Maxtor Basics External Hard Drive

(AlaricP--Eraser Head would be a good one to own on DVD.)

[AlaricP]

Re: Maxtor Basics External Hard Drive

I've got Eraserhead on DVD ... most Lynch for that matter