Description of problem:
When I connect my Western Digital external USB harddisk to my Dell D600 laptop it is not recognized/mounted. I used it without problems on Fedora in the past.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.3.2-6.fc16.i686

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect harddisk to usb
2. wait ...
3. take a look at /var/log/messages and/or run dmesg
  
Actual results:
dmesg output (excerpt):
[ 7606.771079] usb 1-3: new high speed USB device number 26 using ehci_hcd
[ 7606.902848] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=13fd, idProduct=160e
[ 7606.902862] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 7607.289240] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 26
[ 7608.299075] usb 1-3: new high speed USB device number 27 using ehci_hcd
[ 7608.413454] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=13fd, idProduct=160e
[ 7608.413468] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 7608.829222] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 27
[ 7609.839071] usb 1-3: new high speed USB device number 28 using ehci_hcd
[ 7609.953440] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=13fd, idProduct=160e
[ 7609.953454] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 7610.369588] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 28
[ 7611.379077] usb 1-3: new high speed USB device number 29 using ehci_hcd
[ 7611.493419] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=13fd, idProduct=160e
[ 7611.493433] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 7611.909443] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 29


Expected results:
The harddisk should show up as /media/xxxx, like it did some time ago.


Additional info:
Let me know if you need more info. I did some googling, and it seems I am not the only one having this problem?
I always use this HD to make a backup when upgrading betweeen Fedora versions. No problem with F15->F16. It would be nice if I could mount and use this harddisk again when I will upgrade to F17.