Thumbdrive into iMac? help please..

hey everyone,
just got my first iMac last week, mainly to be used for recording music via Pro Tools. My problem is that nothing pops up on the iMac desktop when my thumbdrive is inserted into the usb drive. Maybe my thumbdrive isn't compatible with Macs? It says it should be -> it's an Attache 2G.
Thank you for any help!

It has always worked fine on my PC. Perhaps when I originally "installed" or formatted it on my PC, I set it for PC only?
If this is so, can I remedy this, or is the best thing to purchase another one stricly for my iMac?
thank you..

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linux server. I
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