2009-12-21, 11:53
I'm using XBMC SVN (from PPA) on Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64. My external USB hard disks fail to automount with XBMC (standalone mode), whereas USB thumb drives mount just fine. A quick look at the debug log shows that the disks are being recognized as non-removable, and that's why XBMC doesn't even try to mount them:
Is there any workaround to force XBMC to mount USB drives that are not flagged as "removable" by the system? After all, GNOME mounts them correctly when I plug them in. Perhaps GNOME's automounter ignores the IsRemovable flag? If so, then probably XBMC should have an option to ignore it as well. Any ideas?
Code:
10:33:53 T:140574671702080 M:1359179776 DEBUG: DeviceKit.Disks: Is not able to mount DeviceUDI /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Disks/devices/sdb1: HasFileSystem ntfs IsMounted false IsRemovable false IsPartition true
Is there any workaround to force XBMC to mount USB drives that are not flagged as "removable" by the system? After all, GNOME mounts them correctly when I plug them in. Perhaps GNOME's automounter ignores the IsRemovable flag? If so, then probably XBMC should have an option to ignore it as well. Any ideas?