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External USB Drive is Continually Remounted

Asked by Karl

Hello,
I am running Hardy on an AMD 64 machine. I have a Maxtor 200 GB External USB drive. The drive mounts on the desktop upon boot up. After an hour or so the drive will automatically mount again and open a file Browser view. About an hour later another File Browser windows will automatically open. By the next day my desktop is cluttered with windows of the same File Browser view of the Maxtor Drive. If I don't close the windows the machine will eventually lock up and I will have to do a hard boot.

If I unmount the drive in the beginning the problem still occurs.

I would appreciate any help you could offer.

Thanks,
Karl

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

For some reason your hardisk is unmonted and re mounted every hour you can try to disable the default Nautilus action of exploring mounted support.

Please press ALT+F2 on a free desktop and into just opened window please type:
nautilus

Nautilus come inf front of you, then go to Nautilus menu modify -> preferences... find and disable the explore support when inserted option

Hope this helps

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

The mount/umount of external hard-disk may be related with some power saving active service.

Try to disable all power management.

1. Installed Boot Up Manager

Open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install bum

De-select the following services:

powernowd
apmd
acpi-support
acpid

Disable Gnome-Power-Manager from starting up when you boot into gnome.

You can do this into menu:

System->Preferences->Sessions

Hope this helps

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Karl (kzawoy) said : 		#3

Hello Marcobra,

The procedure above solved the problem.

Thank you very much!

Best regards,
Karl