[plug] USB drive not seen by Debian Sarge

[Philippe Margot]

Are you looking for udev 'add-icon-on-desktop' effect with a too old  
kernel ?

This is what happened to me a couple of weeks ago, when I spent hours  
trying everything to eventually realize that the version of udev required  
a kernel 2.6.12.xxx or older. Mine was only a 2.6.11xxx
In case you still have devfs on your Sarge box, you can have a look at  
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/udevinstall.htm
If udev is what you are looking for (and not fstab-mount...) you should  
use 'udevinfo' to see what is (or not) happening. In my case I had the  
kernel messages but no output for udev. More info on how to use this tool  
and general info on udev at  
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html (kind of udev Bible ...)

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:53:56 +0800, Innis Cunningham <innisc at hotmail.com>  
wrote:

>
> Thanks Mike
>
>
>> From: Michael Holland
>>
>> Hi,
>   You make me feel like a
>> grumpy old fart for suggesting use of the command-line and "mount"
>> command.   e.g. "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/my_dir "
>
> This worked I am sheepish too say maybe I need to add this line to my
> /etc/fstab to get it to recognise from the start
>
>> cheers, Mike.
>
> Thanks again
> Cheers
> Innis
>