USB drive not recognised by Device Notifier KDE 4.2

growbag · May 8, 2009, 5:37pm

When I plug my external USB hard drive in, nothing happens with the Device Notifier under KDE 4.2.

It worked under 4.1.

Dolphin sees the drive and I can mount it by clicking on the icon, and once I enter the LUKS password the drive appears in the Device Notifier (ie the window pops up telling me it is there).

Syslog says -

May  8 17:29:37 linux-5obh kernel: usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
May  8 17:29:37 linux-5obh kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
May  8 17:29:37 linux-5obh kernel: scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
May  8 17:29:37 linux-5obh kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=1100
May  8 17:29:37 linux-5obh kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
May  8 17:29:37 linux-5obh kernel: usb 2-1: Product: My Book
May  8 17:29:37 linux-5obh kernel: usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Western Digital
May  8 17:29:37 linux-5obh kernel: usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 57442D574341553432343535393439
May  8 17:29:37 linux-5obh kernel: usb-storage: device found at 5
May  8 17:29:37 linux-5obh kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
May  8 17:29:38 linux-5obh kernel: scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       10EACS External  1.65 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
May  8 17:29:38 linux-5obh kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors: (1000GB/931GiB)
May  8 17:29:38 linux-5obh kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
May  8 17:29:38 linux-5obh kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 21 00 00 00
May  8 17:29:38 linux-5obh kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
May  8 17:29:38 linux-5obh kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors: (1000GB/931GiB)
May  8 17:29:38 linux-5obh kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
May  8 17:29:38 linux-5obh kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 21 00 00 00
May  8 17:29:38 linux-5obh kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
May  8 17:29:38 linux-5obh kernel:  sdb: sdb1
May  8 17:29:38 linux-5obh kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
May  8 17:29:38 linux-5obh kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
May  8 17:29:38 linux-5obh kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete

I sent a bug report to the KDE devs but have heard nothing so I thought I’d try here once again because it would be nice to get this fixed for 11.2.

openSUSE 11.1 64bit
KDE 4.2.2 (clean install of 11.1 with KDE 4.1 upgraded to 4.2, all updates as of posting)
HP dv6645 laptop, 1 yr old
Western Digital “MyBook” 1tb external USB hard disk

berberz · May 31, 2009, 4:44pm

same problem

thats bug

zafer

user · June 8, 2009, 11:05pm

Ok. My problem is similar but a little worse. KDE nor Gnome can see/mount my drive. It doesn’t show up in yast partioner, but if i type lsusb it is there. Also it shows up as a USB device in Virtual Box but is grayed out so I can’t use it. I tried:
mount ntfs /dev/sda1/ /mnt/tmp/ and it doesn’t work. I’m at a loss for how to find what dev this is and how to mount it. Any help would be great.

Thanks
Steve

user · June 11, 2009, 3:00am

Never mind. The HD is dead. The USB was still doing its job but the HD wasn’t even spinning. :(.

caf4926 · June 11, 2009, 6:11am

It should be something like this:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda? /path_to/mount_point

From @swerdna

OpenSUSE pre version 11.1: When you plug a USB NTFS drive into openSUSE it automounts read-only by design of the openSUSE developers. If you want it mounted read-write, you can either unmount it and then remount it using one of the CLI commands I’ve outlined above or you can change the system default way of automounting NTFS drives so they will always automount read-write. To do that you essentially put a link into the directory /sbin that redirects the automount process to the ntfs-3g driver. The following command will create the permanent adjustment:
sudo ln -s /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs
If at some later stage you want to revert back to the default of automounting USB drives read-only, simply delete the link mount.ntfs located at /sbin/mount.ntfs.

HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11

growbag · June 27, 2009, 1:21pm

Here’s the solution -

Modification summary -

vi /usr/share/kde4/apps/solid/actions/test-predicate-openinwindow.desktop
comment out line 3 with a “#”
insert the following line in it’s place -

X-KDE-Solid-Predicate= StorageVolume.ignored == false AND
StorageVolume.usage == ‘FileSystem’ OR StorageVolume.usage == ‘Encrypted’ ] ]
OR IS StorageAccess AND StorageDrive.driveType == ‘Floppy’ ] ]

Save, exit, reboot.

This works on openSUSE 11.1 with KDE4 Version 4.2.4 (KDE 4.2.4) “release 2”