I am running a LiveCD of the initial 2007-05-31 release of Fedora 7. I plug my Vantec NexStar 3 2.5" hard drive enclosure via a USB cable into my Intel DQ965GF motherboard. The drive has a single primary partition which is formatted ext3. I expect to see the drive icon show up on my desktop, but it does not. /var/log/messages shows: kernel: usb 7-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 kernel: usb 7-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice kernel: scsi10 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices kernel: scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST910021 3MH0L3LA PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS kernel: SCSI device sde: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB) kernel: sde: Write Protect is off kernel: sde: assuming drive cache: write through kernel: SCSI device sde: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB) kernel: sde: Write Protect is off kernel: sde: assuming drive cache: write through kernel: sde: sde1 kernel: sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sde kernel: sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 gnome-mount says 'Device has /dev/sde1 volume.ignore set to TRUE. Refusing to mount.' I believe volume.ignore is set TRUE by /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi because hal-device shows @block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable = false. The question then is, why is the USB drive I just hotplugged in not shown as hotpluggable? Looking at http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/hal/hal/hald/linux2/blockdev.c?revision=1.43&view=markup the hotplug_event_begin_add_blockdev function has a section for 'storage devices' which appears to walk up the device chain and set is_hotpluggable = TRUE for devices with an "info.bus" of "usb". Looking at the output of hal-device, it shows my drive as having storage.bus = 'scsi', rather than 'usb'. Looking at the relevant output we see: 0: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_adea38af_1d06_408d_9538_bee14f7bd3e4' info.product = 'chdata' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_ST910021_3MH0L3LA_22223720636A' (string) 1: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_ST910021_3MH0L3LA_22223720636A' info.product = ' 3MH0L3LA' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_152d_2338_22223720636A_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0' (string) 2: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_152d_2338_22223720636A_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0' info.bus = 'scsi' (string) info.product = 'SCSI Device' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_152d_2338_22223720636A_scsi_host' (string) 3: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_152d_2338_22223720636A_scsi_host' info.product = 'SCSI Host Adapter' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_152d_2338_22223720636A' (string) 6: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_152d_2338_22223720636A' info.product = 'USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_0_0_0000_00_1d_7' (string) info.vendor = 'JMicron' (string) info.bus = 'usb_device' (string) 76: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_0_0_0000_00_1d_7' info.product = 'EHCI Host Controller' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2836' (string) info.bus = 'usb_device' (string) 77: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2836' info.bus = 'pci' (string) info.product = '82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string) This shows that there is no device in the chain with an "info.bus" value of "usb", only of "usb-device", thus the bottom "scsi" bus remains in effect, and the device is not set as hotpluggable. I don't know if this is a bug in the driver of the JMicron USB controller, or should HAL handle the "usb-device" case as it walks the device chain? I will file against HAL, sorry if that's incorrect, and feel free to reassign. Thanks.
Created attachment 159771 [details] entire hal-device output
Looks like the current code at http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=blob;f=hald/linux/blockdev.c does the same thing.
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