Should 'kernel polling' be enabled to auto-mount USB drives

[san3813]

Hello
1. On one of the machines that I installed Salix XFCE 14.1, USB pen drives, ADATA external HDD are not being recognized
2. Standard tricks like enabling volume management, ticking the relevant options under 'Removable drives and media' enabling thunar-volman in settings are all done
3. On 'Linux-questions.org', in one of the posts for this problem, I read that 'Kernel polling' should be enabled. Is this true for salix 14.1 xfce?
4. On other four machines that I have installed Salix 14.1, XFCE, including a laptop, I have not enabled kernel polling myself. By default if it is enabled, I am not aware. I have not checked. Pl. some body clarify this.

If there are additional tricks / points wrt enabling the auto-mount of USB drives, pl. share.

The USB drives is not listed under 'devices' in Thunar but always displayed in the terminal with the commamd 'lsusb'

[gapan]

1. On one of the machines that I installed Salix XFCE 14.1, USB pen drives, ADATA external HDD are not being recognized

Is this really a fresh installation, with nothing changed, or did you remove things "you did not need"? What other changes have you done to the system?

[san3813]

Gapan, this is a fresh installation on a desk top PC
No changes done. XFCE full installation.

[gapan]

Run

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sudo tail -f /var/log/messages

and then plug in a drive that doesn't work. Post what comes out.

[san3813]

No internet connection on that machine. As usual, wvdial yet to be installed, no network manager, sakis3g not working. If usb drives are recognized, I would have loaded wvdials

[san3813]

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Tried to post photos taken from mobile of the screen. Images not getting pasted

[laprjns]

You need to upload them to a image hosting site. Try here http://en.zimagez.com/

[san3813]

after mounting ADATA
http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/img20160227195206.php

before mounting ADATA
http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/img20160227194931.php

Please check and reply, what might be the issue

[gapan]

This looks like a hardware problem. Try booting with the additional kernel option:

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usb-storage.delay_use=5

See if that makes any difference.

[laprjns]

Your Adata USB drive (Model MV611) is USB 3,0 so you may want to try plugging it into a USB 3.0 port if the computer has one.