Comment 31 for bug 211760

I managed to get my original broken USB drive to work.

1.) Manually mount drive
2.) Copy files to local disk
3.) Format USB drive
4.) Use mkdosfs to create new FAT32 filesystem
5.) Copy files to USB drive

Now it works under Mac OSX (and OS9, actually), Linux and Windows and automounts under all of them.

rlandrum@hydrogen:~$ echo "drive i: file=\"/dev/sdb1\"" > ~/.mtoolsrc
rlandrum@hydrogen:~$ sudo minfo i: | grep disk\ type
disk type="FAT32 "

That's the magic. If that's blank (as it was orignally), then it doesn't automount. I'm still unsure as to why that particular attribute was set to blank, or by which OS. What I also found when the attribute was blank was that the drive failed to auto mount on Mac OSX. Only on Windows did it work.