I was having a problem this week where I couldn’t access my storage drive until I had mounted it. This meant that I couldn’t start playing my music until I had mounted it – and sometimes I would forget. So anyway, after a little bit of searching I found a little program called Storage Device Manager which does the trick!

It was surprisingly easy to get this little program running. Simply type “sudo apt-get install pysdm” into a terminal window. To start Storage Device Manager simply type “sudo pysdm” and the following screen will appear:

Storage Device Manager in action on Ubuntu 8.10

Here it is very easy to choose which drives you would like to mount automatically, and set permissions for unmounting them later (if needed).

Now I have no problems getting my music up and running after booting my computer!