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danip
09-06-2004, 08:25 PM
I just installed Suse 9.1 on a friends laptop. He has a maxtor 160 USB hard drive. When i click on my computer it shows the hard drive there so I click on it and it says "could not enter folder /media/usb-storage 111105F69742:0:0:0P1" got any suggestions?
fatTrav
09-06-2004, 09:18 PM
is the usb drive mounted? if so, where?

does the user (assumin it isn't ROOT) have rights to access taht drive?
danip
09-06-2004, 09:32 PM
umm wouldnt it be mounted in /media/usb-storage?
How can i tell if he has rights to it?
fatTrav
09-06-2004, 11:17 PM
umm wouldnt it be mounted in /media/usb-storage?

it would be mounted wherever /etc/fstab tells it.

How can i tell if he has rights to it?

the fstab entry will have something about ownership. also if it is mounted, a 'ls -l' on the mount point would list the perms and user/group information.

root, the super user, has rights to everything

post the relevant section of your fstab
danip
09-06-2004, 11:59 PM
sorry big time linux noob what should i look for in fstab? If i logged in as root and still wasnt able to access it what else could be wrong?
MkIII_Supra
09-07-2004, 12:06 AM
If so there is your problem. Same thing happened to me with my USB pen drive AND ALL USB cameras. I could see them, they were in the FSTAB but even as root I could not enter the drive or read it.

Fix, revert to the origional kernel, problem solved.
danip
09-07-2004, 12:19 AM
problem is this is the only kernel ive tried it on
MkIII_Supra
09-07-2004, 12:27 AM
to the default installed kernel. I refuse to update the kernel now for that reason as well as the VMWare issue.
danip
09-07-2004, 12:32 AM
I just thought of this..when you install suse yast gives you the option during the partitioning to create a mount point to different hard drives. I was not sure which drive was the external and which was internal. But it definintly have the option to mount to both drives. Because i didnt know which was which and i didnt want to swipe the external i unplugged it and started the install again so i did not have to deal with it. Could it be that i just need to create a mount point? Im tempted that since its a new install to just redo it now that i know which drive is which.