Comment 6 for bug 162863

I SOLVED MY OWN PROBLEM!

I had this problem on Lucid as mentioned above and I solved it in 6 steps.

I purged 3rd party drive managers (eg. Storage Device Manager), commented out all the NTFS lines in /etc/fstab, deleted all the mountpoint folders in /media (eg. /media/sdx1), did a "sudo blkid", rebooted, plugged in the devices and Ubuntu auto-detected/auto-setup the UUID of the devices properly - automounted them in Read/Write mode.

The problem seems to be due to the fact that Lucid does NOT use /dev to identify devices anymore, and uses UUID instead.

I suggest that an update be done which will repeat the above steps so that the users will see their NTFS drives automounted again. I hope that helps!