2013-12-11, 01:20
I have an old Dell running XBMCbuntu 12.2 installed from the Live CD, and it works great. I've been slowly adding additional storage to it via external USB drives. I have one WD 2T USB 2.0 drive, one Seagate 2T USB 2.0 drive, and I just added a new Toshiba 3T external USB 3.0 drive. The first two drive have always been automatically mounted when XMBC starts. However, the new Toshiba 3T does not automatically mount into XBMC. (That is, I can't see it in the file manager or elsewhere.) If I run "lsusb" from a command prompt, the device shows up. If I unplug the USB cable and plug it in again, I get the little XBMC popup that say that it is automatically mounting, and then the drive shows up fine.
So my question is how this automatic USB mounting works, and what might be my issue with this new Toshiba drive? Previously, I took for granted that anything plugged into the USB slots on boot up would magically be mounted for me. This has worked fine with various USB sticks in addition to the external HDs. So I was surprised when the new Toshiba drive didn't automatically do the same. Any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
I'm not sure if this is more of a question for the Ubuntu side of XMBCbuntu or the XBMC side. So I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place. However, I do have reasonable technical skills if someone can point me in the right direction or needs more information. Unfortunately, I don't have much Linux knowledge.
Thanks,
Sam
So my question is how this automatic USB mounting works, and what might be my issue with this new Toshiba drive? Previously, I took for granted that anything plugged into the USB slots on boot up would magically be mounted for me. This has worked fine with various USB sticks in addition to the external HDs. So I was surprised when the new Toshiba drive didn't automatically do the same. Any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
I'm not sure if this is more of a question for the Ubuntu side of XMBCbuntu or the XBMC side. So I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place. However, I do have reasonable technical skills if someone can point me in the right direction or needs more information. Unfortunately, I don't have much Linux knowledge.
Thanks,
Sam