Hotmounting eSATA drive

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an external SATA drive that's usually powered off. It has two  
ext3 partitions, FWIW. I find that mount does not recognize the devices  
(/dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2) unless the drive is powered on before booting.

I expect that this is something that HAL should attend to. Any  
suggestions as to what's wrong? HAL works fine with other hot mounted  
devices.

Thanks.