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I've purchased a seagate freeagent goflex usb drive, 1TB. Model number staa1000104. When i plug it in nothing appears on my desktop although the light flashes. My mac seems to have no trouble finding it. Any ideas on how to get this drive to be useable with my ubuntu machine?

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Can you see it with Disk Manager? Do you know witch file system it uses? – desgua Aug 13 '11 at 14:26
Does the drive show up in the disk utility (it's in System - Administration) – Col Aug 13 '11 at 19:48
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try dmesg | tail or sudo tail -f /var/log/messages ....(run from terminal)

you cab see if the drive is detected...

in 11.04 and 11.10 /var/log/messages is disabled, to enable it do the following by uncommenting the following sections of the file as given below.

/etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf

Back it up, then feel free to play with it as you like. The 2 sections you're looking for are these:

*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
auth,authpriv.none;\
cron,daemon.none;\
mail,news.none -/var/log/messages

daemon.*;mail.*;\
news.err;\
*.=debug;*.=info;\
*.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole

After you make changes type in sudo restart rsyslog

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Does the drive show up in your File Manager? I have a couple of these myself and they just worked as soon as I plugged them in. It is also possible that your file manager is set NOT to open when you plug in a new device. If you install ejecter from the repositories, an "eject button" icon will appear in the indicator applet when the drive is mounted. Then you should be able to find it in the sidebar/bookmarks of your file manager. Hope that helps.

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