-=- Where Are The Drives? -=-

I have installed SUSE 10.1 x64 on my rig below. It installed with no major issues, -I had to add the command noapic in grub.


I am having issues with my storage drives; when I am at desktop or at computer, I can see my external hard drive and access it. I can see my ide dvd drive and access it; I can see and access the floppy drive; however, when I try to access my flash drive, it tells me that the operation failed. When I ask for more details, I get the message that: etc/fstab configuration does not allow unprivlieged operation. I have tried to change this -but I am not really sure how do make the changes...

Finally, I can see 'filesystem'; but I cannot see any other partitions on any of my 2 hard drives (4 partitions total) One of the drives is partitioned for windows and linux and the other has 2 partitions in NFTS.


BTW: when I use Knoppix as my flavor of linux, it sees all drives, regardless of format type...


Any ideas?

when I try to access my flash drive, it tells me that the operation failed. When I ask for more details, I get the message that: etc/fstab configuration does not allow unprivlieged operation. I have tried to change this -but I am not really sure how do make the changes...[/b]

can you post the result of

cat /etc/fstab

There must be some wrong setting in fstab file. But to suggest changes, its necessary to see the actual configuration

can you post the result of

cat /etc/fstab

There must be some wrong setting in fstab file. But to suggest changes, its necessary to see the actual configuration
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/dev/sda6************/********************reiserfs** acl,user_xattr********1 1
/dev/sda7************/home****************reiserfs** acl,user_xattr********1 2
/dev/sda1************/windows/C********** ntfs****** ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb1************/windows/D********** ntfs****** ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdc1************/windows/E********** vfat****** users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/sdb5************/windows/F********** ntfs****** ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda5************swap**************** swap****** defaults**************0 0
proc**************** /proc****************proc****** defaults**************0 0
sysfs****************/sys**************** sysfs******noauto****************0 0
debugfs**************/sys/kernel/debug****debugfs****noauto****************0 0
usbfs****************/proc/bus/usb********usbfs******noauto****************0 0
devpts************** /dev/pts************ devpts**** mode=0620,gid=5****** 0 0
/dev/fd0************ /media/floppy********auto****** noauto,user,sync******0 0

you may find this helpful http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.ph...=usb+privilages this topic has been disguss before and in all honesty is pretty common. too common tbf.

hope it helps

Hi slashdot87
Just passing.

Looks like your flashdrive is sdc1. There was a good discussion on VFAts recently. I'm not referring you to it as an answer to your questions, but it's interesting and relevant. It suggests changing fstab like
/dev/sdc1 /windows/E vfat user,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0
Provided sdc1 is the drive in question. I wonder if it would work??

Cheers
swerdna