Removable drive problem in Mandriva 08!

[Dumbledore]

Mandriva Linux 2008 Power Pack does not seem to detect removable drives at all lately for me. It used to work before. This includes even my MP3 player. Please help.

Configuration:

AMD Athlon 3200+
160GB SATA hard disk
Leadtek 6600GT graphics
Creative PCI sound

Please help!!!

[praka123]

^opt for a generic kernel.else,the auto detection and mounting of removable drives is the job of HAL and dbus.so,may be ur hal(hardware abstraction layer) service is in problem or not running.

You can manually mount usb drive in a directory using terminal(gnome-terminal for Gnome and konsole for kde).
login as root in terminal:
su -
^give root password.
now in "#" prompt,mount ur usb device if it is detected.usb devices are normally assigned /dev/sdb /dev/sdc etc.try!
mount /dev/sd* /mnt
and for unmounting,
umount /dev/sd* /mnt
where "*" is the device file name.

If usb is not detected,check the logs.check the end of /var/log/dmesg file.

[Dumbledore]

HAL is running alright. Only when the drive appears in the /media folder or /mnt folder, mounting is possible, right? But it is not getting detected at all.

[mehulved]

Run dmesg in a terminal when you insert a removable drive.