From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTIk0-00043O-Qh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:03:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51B8CE02CE; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:02:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f224.google.com (mail-fx0-f224.google.com [209.85.220.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 153E7E02CE for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:02:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm24 with SMTP id 24so1703691fxm.34 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:02:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=u42kXmqczyFI90LPREeY10zPYeUghBNJKdgSKwi4aDQ=; b=k0ndhRBoF/UwqIXHVv/bWcbynLrN0l3VmkLIZjEecb5AU7hNTAHrUdatt48quR9y1y bEEER5y8Ynk/CQ3AyvDR/VBL4pNVk3eIanqPFFjuPdG33dME6Gq3zO5vfT9PMNkO32EK +kk6SoGqL2dV6FtFzG7FCTj1/W+4oEtNW9he4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gcaqoVNtyQF6BOzPjZSrvxDjxCcV1nPoN7du/o8KCTx5QcJBpe5WRvm7hCpTUo+Lbp wPZNDVMvzdeXLimkriDPcUEBt0bVtHtIEdhqHjWH+oW4vJtJG/tYFPMYNmRBSX+eA13X 0J4euNW2d14ra4/8zo08zWsECej/9CtZZ1Z9Y= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.220.18 with SMTP id x18mr1371507muq.23.1248195778403; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:02:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <93ae19410907210248r18c48745mce4424d34839c925@mail.gmail.com> References: <93ae19410907210248r18c48745mce4424d34839c925@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:02:58 +0100 Message-ID: <93ae19410907211002g3e219055qea1beabbab70a0ab@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Odd USB external hard disk does not play nice with KDE From: brullo nulla To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 74e665f4-04ff-4541-935b-7096c4b2814f X-Archives-Hash: 461928b254ea45f1d9129d10b595dc6e On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:48 AM, brullo nulla wrote: > Hi, > > I just bought a novel, 1.5 Tb USB external HD. > > The kernel recognizes it nice and well, and I can mount and unmount it > as root, lookin' its content etc. without problems. > But KDE refuses to "see" it as a new media. It does not even appear in > the "media:/". The odd thing is that it is the first and so far only > external drive with this behaviour. Other USB drives (I have several) > work nice, appear in the desktop and KDE ask me what to do with them. Ok. It seems I have been lured into buying a cheap Seagate brick-in-a-box. I will return it tomorrow morning and take a WD. m.