Removable Devices not detected

Through some recent update, which one I am not sure, my system no longer responds to removable media such as flash drives and insertions of DVD/CD disks. Whereas before, for instance, if I inserted a USB flash drive, the “Device Notifier” would pop up, tell me that a new device had been detected, and ask me what I wanted to do with it, now nothing. “My Computer” (sysinfo:/)does not update either. The kernel knows the device is there, since I can see it when I do “lsusb”. Any ideas on where I can start troubleshooting this?

OpenSuSE x86_64 11.2.

When you think it is after an update (and it looks like it is) maybe it would help when you post a list of repos. Thus people get an idea where the misfit could come from.

zypper lr -d

On Thu, 20 May 2010 12:56:01 +0000, evetsnameloc wrote for a reply:

> Through some recent update, which one I am not sure, my system no longer
> responds to removable media such as flash drives and insertions of
> DVD/CD disks. Whereas before, for instance, if I inserted a USB flash
> drive, the “Device Notifier” would pop up, tell me that a new device had
> been detected, and ask me what I wanted to do with it, now nothing. “My
> Computer” (sysinfo:/)does not update either. The kernel knows the device
> is there, since I can see it when I do “lsusb”. Any ideas on where I can
> start troubleshooting this?
>
> OpenSuSE x86_64 11.2.

I don’t have an answer for you but I have that problem with floppies
though for my problem I suspect its the floppy drive that is failing
rather than Suse 11.2.

Have you tried enabling autofs?

Code:

sudo chkconfig autofs 35

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Chillingout@opensuse.forum

The solutions to the problem were two-fold, one of which is embarrassing:

  1. The problem with detecting the flash drive was that the drive that I was testing with was formatted in MacOS. Once I formatted it with a recognizable file system it was detected.

  2. The problem with the DVD drive was with this file: “/etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-storage_model_DVD_RW__DVR_212D.fdi”. The flag in this file needs to be set to “true” but somehow mine had gotten set to “false”.

Maybe there is a similar file blocking recognition of your floppy.

It is my understanding that autofs should not be enabled for this autodetecting/automounting stuff to work.