Comment 9 for bug 564459

Adding one more note. The other fixes mentioned in other threads also didn't work for me. Including them here in case this symptom has multiple causes, and they may be of use to others watching this bug.

One was to disable floppy controller in bios (done, no effect) and the other was to have only "hal" and "pmount" packages installed, and _not_ "usbmount" (supposedly 'usbmount' was causing some sort of conflict). I had only "hal" installed, so tried adding "pmount" and still no luck.

I'm not even seeing the device show up under /dev when I plug the book in, so can't see an easy way to mount it at all. Going to try one more reboot, this time with the USB device plugged in before booting (cold boot) which some other reports seem to say still works. If that does, at least I'll have a way to get to my data.