Dvdstyler does not see my external USB harddrive. I am using Dvdstyler version 2.6 on Mint Mate. The external harddrive works and is seen by Mint but does not show up in Dvdstylers browser. The Dvdstyler browser does not see a USB jump drive or an SD memory card either. Any suggestions? Thank you.

Give us the output of : lsusb and mount

r@r:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f2:b1c1 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 059b:0370 Iomega Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
r@r:~$ mount
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=478723,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=385584k,mode=755)
/dev/disk/by-uuid/88cd6423-3301-4e66-ab8f-434fd625341b on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=771160k)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda2 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=4k,mode=755)
systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,name=systemd)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/r/Iomega HDD type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)
r@r:~$
The external harddrive is a 1 Tb. Iomega and I have not had any problems with it except Dvdstyler does not see it.
Thank you,
Rob

Hi...

Just as an idea, in case no one here can give you the answer, you might want to ask the folks here, who might be in a better position to help.

Regards...

Try to navigate to : /media/r/Iomega. You can only burn on DVD disks.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is because a non-Linux filesystem is used on that external drive.

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I considered Dvdstylers forum on Sourceforge but I did not like the registration.

When I tried to navigate to the harddrive I got this:

r@r:~$ cd /media/r/Iomega
bash: cd: /media/r/Iomega: No such file or directory
r@r:~$ cd /media/r
r@r:/media/r$ dir
Iomega\ HDD
r@r:/media/r$ cd Iomega\
> dir
bash: cd: Iomegadir: No such file or directory
r@r:/media/r$

I suspect that it is an NTFS file system since the mount command said it was type fuseblk.

I have about 500 Gb of data on the Iomega that I have never had a problem with until I tried Dvdstyler.

Thank you.

try this:

That worked. The external harddrive was in Dvdstyler's file browser all along. It has an entry for / and if you expand it there is an entry for media and under media there is an entry for Iomega HDD. I just did not think of an external device as being under root. Thank you.

r@r:~$ cd "/media/r/Iomega HDD"
r@r:/media/r/Iomega HDD$ dir
Battlefield1942.lnk Lenovo\ 2014-05-26
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r@r:/media/r/Iomega HDD$