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drseergio

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Thursday, May 10th 2007, 3:17pm

Problems with media manager not detecting a USB external drive

I am using KDE for a quite a long time now but never experienced following problems before. I will try to make the description as clear as possible.

The problem is that the media manager in KDE does not detect my USB hard drive that has reiserfs on it, a label and it DID work some time ago. If I connect the drive before the boot then it appears in the list.

The hard driver itself is detected as /dev/sdb (/dev/sdb2 is the partition) by linux as you can see from dmesg:

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usb 5-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 5-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 7
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb-storage: device scan complete
scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Maxtor 6 Y160P0           0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
SCSI device sdb: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb2
sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0


The /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab do not contain entry for this drive so it is not the source of problems.

It seems like devices are only put into media folder only if they are present at boot time not later. What might be the source of problems?

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Thursday, May 10th 2007, 7:53pm

It was an issue with HAL, not KDE. Probably some people will face it. When using 2.6.20 and hal 0.5.7.1 then usb devices are not recognized correctly. Spent a whole day! Look here for more details: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-556…hlight-hal.html