Comment 37 for bug 211760

For the record...

I have a Zen Stone MP3 player which connects via USB and behaves as an "ordinary" drive. (by which I mean you can just drag and drop files onto it in Nautilus and also use it to store non-music data.)

<strong>Intrepid</strong>: On a friend's Intrepid it mounts automatically when connected, owned by the ordinary user.

<strong>Feisty</strong>: On Feisty, which I was using till recently, I'd put in an entry for fstab and created a mount point /media/zenplayer, and it was then able to mount automatically when connected (owned by me).
This was the fstab line:
/dev/disk/by-label/ZEN_Stone /media/zenplayer auto rw,user,noauto,sync 0 0

<strong>Hardy</strong>: A few weeks ago I did a fresh install of Hardy. I've accepted all recommendations of updates which Synaptic gives me, so I presume it's up to date. I just tried mounting the Zen Stone for the first time since then.

What I got was a popup
"Cannot mount volume.
Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume 'ZEN Stone'.
OK"

Mounting manually as root does work, though of course then it belongs to root. (For some reason it wouldn't let me sudo chown so the Zen filesystem belonged to me, but I can run Nautilus as root.) So I do have a workaround.

A couple of other USB things <em>have</em> auto-mounted OK on Hardy when I connected them, including one memory stick. (These were things which would auto-mount on Feisty too, without me having to add lines to fstab.)

I tried adding the fstab line which had worked in Feisty, and creating a similar mount point. That didn't make any difference - I just got the same popup error as before.

I tried looking in GConf as suggested above and there was no "usefree" setting.

Clues welcome if you think there's something I might have set up wrong.

I was planning to wait till the next LTS before upgrading, so I do rather hope someone can patch this in Hardy if it is a bug. Thanks in advance if that's possible.