External USB hard disk detection

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Chong Yu Meng wrote:


> Here's my problem:
> 
> 1. Whereas before, on my Thinkpad, the external hard disk was easily 
> detected on boot, but on this ASUS notebook, it is not. I have to 
> restart the haldaemon and/or re-plug my external hard disk in for it to 
> be detected.

You didn't tell us if your Thinkpad had FC4 as well, so your problem 
might be hardware or software related. Perhaps it is this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163057


> 2. The hard disk has 2 partitions on it, one VFAT (FAT32) partition and 
> a EXT3 partition. The VFAT partition mounts fine, but the EXT3 partition 
> mounts as read-only for normal users, writable by root user only
> 3. I tried setting the umask to 000 for the EXT3 partition, but it does 
> not seem to change anything. Currently, I created a directory that is 
> world-writable in the EXT3 partition and just dump my stuff inside there.

Search bugzilla.redhat.com for probs 2 & 3?
Klaus