Hi All,

I suspect that something changed recently on the way that USB devices are 
mounted.  I noticed that mounting a USB flash drive has stopped working as 
follows:
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$ dmesg
[snip...]

usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1516, idProduct=8628
usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 2-1: Product: Gizmo! overdrive1492632974
usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Crucial
usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 1492632974
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Crucial  Gizmo! overdrive 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1997312 512-byte hardware sectors (1023 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1997312 512-byte hardware sectors (1023 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: unknown partition table
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

$ pmount /dev/sda
Error: device /dev/sda is not removable
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However, clicking on the device in Konqueror under media:/ mounts it happily 
under /media/disk.  Previously it would mount it under /media/sda and the 
pmount command would not error out as shown above.
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$ mount
[snip...]
/dev/sda on /media/disk type vfat 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,flush,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=lower)
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I also noticed that "shortname=lower" is set as the default, which is annoying 
because the file/folder names are forced to display in lower case.

I am using dbus and hald with a Fluxbox WM so the default KDE behaviour with 
the automounting pop up dialog does not work here (unless I have launched the 
full KDE DE).

Any ideas what has caused these changes?  Are they reversible/configurable?
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Regards,
Mick