Error mounting USB ZIP drive

[dfgrbac]

Being a happy Mandriva 2005 Limited Edition user, I recently installed Mandriva 2007. In the 2005 edition, my USB ZIP drive was mounted automatically just by inserting a disk - nice and easy. But in the 2007 edition, I get the following error:

 

Method "mount" with signature "ssas"on interface "org.Freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist.

 

Can anyone provide the solution to this?

[scarecrow]

Sounds like a dodgy automount command (probably some leftover udev rules which don't apply anymore).

Can you mount the pendrive manually to some (any) mountpoint?

[dfgrbac]

Sounds like a dodgy automount command (probably some leftover udev rules which don't apply anymore).

Can you mount the pendrive manually to some (any) mountpoint?

 

Thanks for the suggestion and reply. I tried the control center before to try and mount the zip drive resulting in the same error. However, I didn't try creating the mount point since I didn't think it should be necessary - it wasn't in edition 2005.

 

I created /mnt/zip and was able to mount the zip disk using the control center.

 

However, I consider this to be a step backwards. Systems are "supposed to improve" with each upgrade.

 

Is the problem that nobody is using ZIP drives anymore? There has to be a lot of us out here doing that.

 

At any rate, thanks again!

[scarecrow]

It's not supposed to use manual mounting and static mount points, really. This is a thing from the past.

First, checkout if you have the HAL daemon running. Second, please tell us the EXACT model you have there, as well as the hardware vendor. In most cases this problem is resolved by just adding a simple, handmade udev rule.