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removable storage is not detected

Asked by sheshe

i have installed ubuntu 7.10.All seems just right,but my external hard disk and thumbdrive is not detected.no icon at all indicating that it has been detected..The other partition that running in windows is detected,mounted and very visible.I have tried looking for solution through, but non of them works.
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Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan) said : 		#1

plug the devices. Type df and see if they are already mounted on a folder you are not seeing.

If they aren't mounted and are usb, type on the terminal: lsusb

see if they are listed. Try to mount them using the command line. Create a temporary folder to test and do it. Something on the /tmp directory would be nice... Type:

mkdir /tmp/test

Take a look at the man page typing: man mount. But it is basically mount filesystem /dev/sdXX destination
sdXX is your usb device. If there is no other usb device pluged on the pc, it must be sda1. If it works you can manualy add an entry to the /etc/fstab

Hope it helps...

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