USB Drive is not automounted in LInux

[ilugd]

I have a Data Traveller 2.0 and when I put it on a usb port on my open suse 10.2 system, it is not detected. It was working fine a few days ago. It works ok even now on my win98 and winxp systems.

I am not able to open cds burnt from a windows system. all i see is one file, the name of which is full of junk characters.

[kaustav_geek]

Thats pretty strange... Haven't faced such a problem so far. Been using Ubuntu, Fedora, and currently Sabayon.

Originally Posted by ilugd

It was working fine a few days ago.

Was it ? What happened ? Any major updates ?

[ilugd]

I don't think there were any major updates as such but i am right now installing a lot of dvd ripper tools through yast inthe background right now. It is downloading. Do you think that could be the reason?

[mehulved]

Check if HAL is running. Try

/etc/init.d/hald start

[ilugd]

jsemmanuel@emmanuel:~> /etc/init.d/hald start
bash: /etc/init.d/hald: No such file or directory
jsemmanuel@emmanuel:~> cd /etc/init.d
jsemmanuel@emmanuel:/etc/init.d> ls | grep hal
haldaemon
halt
halt.local
jsemmanuel@emmanuel:/etc/init.d> haldaemon start
bash: haldaemon: command not found
jsemmanuel@emmanuel:/etc/init.d> ./haldaemon start
HAL already started. Not starting.
jsemmanuel@emmanuel:/etc/init.d>

so i guess hal is already starting. What can I do now?
Can anyone tell me how to mount stuff, like if the usb is on sdb or something, how do i use the mount command?
I dont remember changing any setting to stop automounting, though i have vmware installed so maybe since it is sharing the usb drive, it may have changed settings. But my usb mouse works fine.

[vish786]

How to mount an USB Pen Drive
Attach your USB pendrive to Linux computer.
#dmesg
{Check the last lines. It will show the device name used by pendrive for example
/dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1)
#mkdir /pendrive
#mount /dev/sdb1 /pendrive
How to unmount & remove an USB Pen Drive/Hard
Disk from Linux System?
#unmount /pendrive
# eject /dev/sdb1
à {Pendrive will stop blinking. Now
remove it}

this is wat i found ... hope it helps.

[ilugd]

wow... Just thought of trying that one out. But as soon as inserted the usb disk, it got detected. Dunno what was the problem that day.

[praka123]

^yes.usb pendrives are mostly detected and automounted in almost all distros.