Re: Might as well figure out SATA while I'm snowed in.

I assume you have tried setting the users,uid, and gid options in the fstab?

Reid

Ron Berntson wrote:
> I just purchased an EZ-Swap 2 SATA and IDE units for my Ubuntu box. The IDE
> unit works like a charm (not hot swappable, but this is a personal computer,
> so who cares).
>
> However the SATA drive is being a pain. I have a 400GB module that will
> mount just fine (it is formatted as FAT32 with the intention of eventually
> sometime putting it in my Windows box). When I use the Disks administration
> module to mount it, it shows up fine at the mount point in my home
> directory, but the owner and group have been reset to root and it is read
> only. When I sudo chown with my username - the operation isn't permitted.
> I've also messed around with various incarnations of the ftab file, but
> still no ownership or write access.
>
> I can't find any obvious answers with a google - any suggestions?
>
> Ron B.
>
>
Received on Wed Jan 10 19:00:46 2007