USB Storage Devices do not mount

[RDTG]

Hello,

 

I am currently running Leopard (10.5.7) on my Dell Vostro A860.

Pretty much everything works except for 2 things.

Internal WiFi & External USB Storage devices.

 

Now, other than USB storage devices not working, my USB works fine.

I have a USB wifi card, and a USB webcam which work fine.

 

And, I don't care that my internal wifi doesn't work right now, because I have a much faster USB wifi card (n1)

 

But, I have an external USB hard drive, and a few USB flash drives that I really need to access on this laptop.

Whenever I plug in the hard drive or the flash drives, they do not mount. The thing is, they show up in System Profiler, under the USB tab, but they do not mount, and they do not show up in Disk Utility.

I am wondering if anyone else had or has this problem, and knows how to fix it?

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Specs:

Dell Vostro A860

Intel Core2Duo 1.42 Ghz

2 GB Ram

500 GB Internal WD Hard Drive

Intel Graphics GMA X3100 (I'm not sure if thats what the notebook has, but thats the extension I use and it works fine.)

Sound - I don't know what brand hardware, but it works.

[JeanG]

Hello RDTG,

I have the same Laptop, and one years ago, i try to install Leopard on it but at those time, it was very difficult to make it works.

Can you tell me which distro do you use ? (sorry for my english, i'm french ...) and how you make it works.

JeanG