Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.8) Installed from: Fedora RPMs While attaching Seagate FreeAgent external HDD, the following error message is displayed. The device is 750Gb USB HDD, detected as /dev/sdb, formatted as NTFS.
Created attachment 23643 [details] screenshot The same thing happens on my computer.
[root@localhost ~]# parted /dev/sda GNU Parted 1.8.6 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: ATA FUJITSU MHW2160B (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 160GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 4 32.3kB 82.3MB 82.2MB primary ext2 1 82.3MB 50.1GB 50.0GB primary ntfs boot 2 50.1GB 51.1GB 1028MB primary linux-swap 3 51.1GB 160GB 109GB extended 5 51.1GB 143GB 92.1GB logical ext3 6 143GB 160GB 16.8GB logical ext3
When the error occurred, the location bar said: media:/sda1
See also: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/378041 This message is coming from hal (and argueably, that's where the bug lies, but that issue is under dispute).
kio media is gone in KDE4.