Lacie drives mount fine in root, but get HAL error elsewhere (10.3)

[xvszero]

Hey, we are having a very, very weird problem over here.

We are using Suse 10.3 on one of our servers.

We have two old 250 GB Lacie USB drives (FAT 32) ... and two brand new 500 GB Lacie USB drives (also FAT 32.)

1 of each (250/500) will mount fine... 1 of each will not. As far as we know there should be no differences between any of the drives. There was some question of whether the old drives were reformatted or not, but the new ones are straight out of the box.

All of them work fine on the other Suse 10.3 servers... so I think it is probably a server problem, but as far as we know the install was the same as the others... and well, there is still the question of why some drives work and other ones don't.

Anyone have any ideas on what this could be?

This is making our data center manager pull his hair out.

[xvszero]

Is there some sort of default configuration that keeps other users from being able to use USB outside root?

I guess that would make some sense so that a common user couldn't just go into the data room and copy out sensitive information.

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

I don't run suse, but check your /etc/group file to see if there is some group your user needs to be a member of that would allow you access.