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Recently I installed Demudi on my laptop because I needed a low latency solution for some audio prodution I am currently working on, but my problem is that I cannot connect external USB devices such as hard drives or flash drives and have them recognized, and I cannot backup my work. Now I have used Mandriva, Ubuntu, and Knoppix so I'm used to a Linux system and both of my Fat32 hard drives have worked on those distros but for some reason they dont work on this one and I can't figure out whats wrong, any ideas?

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2007-01-02 19:55.

A couple of possibilities.
1. You could be missing an entry in /etc/fstab like:

/dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

On my system, I knew to enter /dev/sdb1 because the usb device showed up as sdb1 on the xfce desktop (maybe HAL is responsible for that feature).

2. You may be missing usb support in your kernel, for example the usb_storage module. lsmod will tell you if it is loaded.

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