On 21/08/12 02:10, David wrote:
Hi Peter
How are you going with your problem? I do not have Ubuntu here and do not know how it handles auto mounting so I hoped someone better informed about that than me would help you. Anyway I will try to give you a solution that avoids dealing with the automount.
Hello David, Thanks for your help and that of everyone else.The drive is now working as before and packed away with over 100GB of data on it. The problem was an ownership problem and I was not aware of the effects that has on devices or familiar with the chown command. sudo chown $USER /media/5a* worked fine. The reason I have sometimes not given feedback to people on here is due to avoiding arguments.I was told by a long time member of this group to avoid arguing with people on here.Also I have personal problems which I don't want to go into.I am doing the best I can.My actions are certainly not out of disrespect. regards Peter -- Linux Mint User http://www.linuxmint.com/