Somebody in the thread at some point said: > I never had the issues that Karl states (plugging in the USB drive and, > not have it auto-mount, not have it list the contense). > > I too use F7 on each device - at this point, one must wonder what it is > that either Karl is doing wrong OR, what type/old is the hardware? > > It's just odd (to me at least) that nearly-everything Karl seems to do > - fails. That doesn't seem to be a fair summary. In Bugzilla for example https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249161 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249282 Plenty of folks are having the same problem. It's not Karl's fault that there are problems in the kernel right now. BTW on that last bugzilla, they recommend trying udev-113-8.fc7 to fix the problem: I was able to get this with yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update udev -Andy