Cannot mount external hard drive on USB port

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Dewald_de_Lange_4103 : 07/07/08 01:36 PM : Incident created -   When I run "mount /dev/sda1 /media/USB_HD in Konsole as root, I can access the external hard drive as root, but not as user. Also don't have permission in root to write to hard drive.
Dewald_de_Lange_4103 : 08/07/08 10:16 PM : Reply received -   Solved problem without feedback from Mandriva (useless). I don't know which of the following changes made the difference: (1) Plugged the external USB hard drive into a Windows computer, and removed all the Read-only file attributes. Also gave all permissions to user. (2) Plugged hard drive back into Linux computer. Executed as root in Konsole: "mount /dev/sda1 /media/USB_HD (3) Tried to change permissions for directory /media/USB_HD as root, but failed. (4) In Configure Your Computer -> Security, changed security level to standard. (5) In Configure Your Computer -> Tune Permissions On System, added /media/ with Read, Write and Execute permission to User, Group and Other (the permissions of the other directories can't be changed, because the OK entry is not available) (6) Rebooted computer.