Bug 239496

Description of problem:
Ever since test4 came out (and I ran yum upgrade from my test3 installation), my
Western Digital MyBook portable harddrive isn't automatically mounted by hal. It
used to be that whenever I boot the computer I have to turn the harddrive off
and on again for hal to detect and mount it, but now its not mounting it at all.

A few USB disk-on-key style devices I have lying around are mounted properly, as
well as a palm NVFS exported using a USB mass storage software called "Softick
Card Export 2". All of them are detected and mounted by hal properly, but not
the WD portable hard drive.

Looking at /var/log/messages, here's the WD My Book connecting:
May  8 23:53:51 normandi kernel: usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using
ehci_hcd and address 4
May  8 23:53:52 normandi kernel: usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
May  8 23:53:52 normandi kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
May  8 23:53:52 normandi kernel: scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
May  8 23:53:52 normandi kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver
usb-storage
May  8 23:53:52 normandi kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
May  8 23:53:53 normandi scanbuttond: scanbtnd_open failed, error code: -19
May  8 23:53:53 normandi scanbuttond: scanbtnd_open returned -ENODEV, device
rescan will be performed
May  8 23:53:55 normandi scanbuttond: meta-backend: detaching scanner: "Canon
CanoScan LiDE 30"
May  8 23:53:55 normandi scanbuttond: meta-backend: attached scanner "Canon
CanoScan LiDE 30"
May  8 23:53:57 normandi kernel: scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       3200JB
External  0108 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
May  8 23:53:57 normandi kernel: SCSI device sdb: 625142448 512-byte hdwr
sectors (320073 MB)
May  8 23:53:59 normandi kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
May  8 23:53:59 normandi kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
May  8 23:54:01 normandi kernel: SCSI device sdb: 625142448 512-byte hdwr
sectors (320073 MB)
May  8 23:54:02 normandi kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
May  8 23:54:03 normandi kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
May  8 23:54:04 normandi kernel:  sdb: sdb1
May  8 23:54:05 normandi kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
May  8 23:54:07 normandi kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

and that's it. For comparison, here a minute later is a USB dok style media
player connecting:

May  8 23:54:43 normandi kernel: usb 2-6: new high speed USB device using
ehci_hcd and address 5
May  8 23:54:43 normandi kernel: usb 2-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
May  8 23:54:43 normandi kernel: scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
May  8 23:54:43 normandi scanbuttond: scanbtnd_open failed, error code: -19
May  8 23:54:43 normandi scanbuttond: scanbtnd_open returned -ENODEV, device
rescan will be performed
May  8 23:54:46 normandi scanbuttond: meta-backend: detaching scanner: "Canon
CanoScan LiDE 30"
May  8 23:54:46 normandi scanbuttond: meta-backend: attached scanner "Canon
CanoScan LiDE 30"
May  8 23:54:48 normandi kernel: scsi scan: INQUIRY result too short (5), using 36
May  8 23:54:49 normandi kernel: scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     GENERIC  USB
DISK DEVICE  1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
May  8 23:54:46 normandi kernel: SCSI device sdc: 2000561 512-byte hdwr sectors
(1024 MB)
May  8 23:54:47 normandi kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off
May  8 23:54:49 normandi kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
May  8 23:54:50 normandi kernel: SCSI device sdc: 2000561 512-byte hdwr sectors
(1024 MB)
May  8 23:54:51 normandi kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off
May  8 23:54:53 normandi kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
May  8 23:54:54 normandi kernel:  sdc: unknown partition table
May  8 23:54:55 normandi kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
May  8 23:54:56 normandi kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
May  8 23:54:51 normandi hald: mounted /dev/sdc on behalf of uid 500

and we can see hal mounting it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.5.9-6.fc7