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9a8sy
February 14th, 2010, 06:01 PM
I just installed 9,10 on my desktop which has 2 Hard Drives, an IDE and a SCSI. I let Ubuntu do the partitioning but I'm having trouble accessing the second drive which is the SCSI. When I try to go to it, it has a pop up window that says "Authentication is required to mount this device". I can enter my password and then I see the lost+found folder on it. My question is how to I make this drive available without going through the authentication process everytime? I'll attach additional info below:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 111115968 2761816 102709716 3% /
udev 739616 292 739324 1% /dev
none 739616 1212 738404 1% /dev/shm
none 739616 84 739532 1% /var/run
none 739616 0 739616 0% /var/lock
none 739616 0 739616 0% /lib/init/rw
none 111115968 2761816 102709716 3% /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs
dennis@Ubuntu-desktop:~$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

8 0 117220824 sda
8 1 112888723 sda1
8 2 1 sda2
8 5 4329486 sda5
8 16 35548320 sdb
8 17 35543781 sdb1

darkod
February 14th, 2010, 06:08 PM
Is this second hdd ntfs partition or linux partition?
For ntfs you can install ntfs-config with:
sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

After it installs it will be in System-Administration. With the second disk UNMOUNTED open that tool and it will detect it, and it will also ask you if you want to automount at every boot.
This is the easiest way, you can also edit manual fstab but that is more risky if you aren't used to it.

If that disk is linux partition, I think you have to edit manually fstab but reseach more about it. Making wrong edit in fstab can block you booting your ubuntu.

oldfred
February 14th, 2010, 06:09 PM
The default does not automatically give permissions or ownership. You should understand mounting and if you want to permanently mount it understand fstab.

Understanding fstab
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=283131
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/

You still should understand fstab and mount as some of the settings may be important but:
But it is a lot easier to use a graphical front end that both creates the mount point and edits fstab.
Try installing pysdm from the repos.
PySDM is a PyGTK Storage Device Manager

9a8sy
February 14th, 2010, 07:17 PM
This machine originally had XP on it so maybe that second drive has ntfs on it still. I would think it would be better to make it a linux partition unless I was making this a dual boot or something wouldn't I?