On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:40:37 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > > pmount thinks your drive is not removable, so refuses to allow
> > > mounting for security reasons. The fix is to add it
> > > to /etc/pmount.allow.
> >
> > Thanks.  Is this a new feature? Unless my memory fails me I never had
> > to edit /etc/pmount.allow previously to be able to pmount/pumount this
> > same device.
>
> It's been around for ages. This is more likely a HAL change that now
> causes this device to be considered non-removable.

I haven't updated hal for some time now.  But . . . not sure how to explain 
this - genlop shows that the last time I updated hal was:

Tue Nov 13 20:43:45 2007 >>> sys-apps/hal-0.5.9.1-r3

However, eix -l has a different idea:

Installed versions:  0.5.9.1-r3(06:39:10 04/15/08)(acpi crypt kernel_linux 
pcmcia -debug -dell -disk-partition -doc -kernel_FreeBSD -selinux)

Will it be easier if I also blame kernel 2.6.25-r6 instead?  :p

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Regards,
Mick