need help - lost hardware since upgrade

[ghostofzuul]

hello

upgraded to lucid and since doing so the 2nd hard drive and my 2 cd burners don't show up in "places" anymore.

I have no way to access the 2nd hard drive which has all my media on it. As far as the cd burners, they work when i use a program that requires the cd burners but they don't show up anywhere.

if i run lshw it shows the harddrive and 2 cd burners.

any ideas?

thanks.

[twoHats]

Hi ghostofzuul:

Can you please do this and post the output here:

mount

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[ghostofzuul]

hello,

thanks for your reply!

here's the output:

/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/stormy/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=stormy)

[twoHats]

Now - one more... only one disk being mounted, if we can see the other we can mount it...So, if you will post output from:

sudo fdisk -l

note: that is an ell, not a one.

[ghostofzuul]

Disk /dev/sda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00097838

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4813 38660391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4814 4998 1486012+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4814 4998 1485981 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 4864 39062457 b W95 FAT32

[devils casper]

Doesn't Natilus list /dev/sdb1 partition in Left Pane?
Try to mount it manually.

cd /media
sudo mkdir my_media
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 my_media -o defaults,umask=0
ls my_media

You can add this code at the end of /etc/fstab file to automount /dev/sdb1partition.

/dev/sdb1   /media/my_media    vfat     defaults,umask=0  0  0

[ghostofzuul]

Doesn't Natilus list /dev/sdb1 partition in Left Pane?
Try to mount it manually.

cd /media
sudo mkdir my_media
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 my_media -o defaults,umask=0
ls my_media

You can add this code at the end of /etc/fstab file to automount /dev/sdb1partition.

/dev/sdb1   /media/my_media    vfat     defaults,umask=0  0  0

it worked when i mounted it manually. i haven't tried to edit my fstab yet. in the past when i've done that i've had really bad results and so i'm a bit gunshy.

i still don't understand what happened. prior to upgrading to lucid, the 2nd hard drive would show up in "places" and i could select it and it would mount. i could also unmount it. for some reason when i upgraded to lucid it went away.

i don't know that i want it mounted all the time. i liked being able to mount it from places w/out having to do command line level stuff.

i'm still a newbie to ubuntu so anything having to do with the terminal bums me out.