How can you get a Seagate USB 160 GB drive to mount?

[Richard England <rlengland@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have acquired a Seagate ST31600261-RK  160GB  USB drive.

It is billed as a "Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drive". (..well 
pushbutton perhaps in Windoze...).

/sbin/lsusb shows it appearing as /dev/sdc1  and by adding the following 
to my /etc/fstab file
   /dev/sdc1   /mnt/seagate   vfat   rw

I can mount it, logged in as root, using
   mount /mnt/seagate

It does NOT "automount" like my USB thumb drives and USB printers 
automount.  

What needs to be configured to get this to work in a similar fashion?  I 
assume that it will involve /etc/udev (given the recent discussion here) 
and perhaps hal, and the manufacturer and device code from lsusb.

If someone can give me some starters on what to research then if/when I 
get it to work I will submit an enhancement request to get this device 
added so the next person can benefit.

?

Thanks for any input,
~~R