usb (vfat) not showing

[vinster]

Hi guys/gals(?),
I have a usb seagate 160gb hdd which used to show on my FC5 desktop when hotplugged but now FC6 nothing. I know it's detected via dmesg as sda1 but no show. I can mount it with the terminal command, it would just be nice to fix it. I have seen this in udev rules

#######################################
# Persistent block device stuff - begin
#######################################
# persistent disk links: /dev/disk/{by-id,by-uuid,by-label,by-path}
# scheme based on "Linux persistent device names", 2004, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

ACTION!="add", GOTO="persistent_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="block", GOTO="persistent_end"

# skip rules for inappropriate block devices
KERNEL=="ram*|loop*|fd*|nbd*|gnbd*", GOTO="persistent_end"

# never access removable ide devices, the drivers are causing event loops on open()
BUS=="ide", DRIVER!="ide-cdrom", SYSFS{removable}=="1", GOTO="persistent_end"
BUS=="ide", KERNEL=="hd*[0-9]", SYSFS{../removable}=="1", GOTO="persistent_end"

# by-id (hardware serial number)
KERNEL=="hd*[!0-9]", IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/ata_id --export $tempnode"
KERNEL=="hd*[!0-9]", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/ata-$env{ID_MODEL}_$env{ID_SERIAL}"
KERNEL=="hd*[0-9]", IMPORT{parent}=="ID_*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/ata-$env{ID_MODEL}_$env{ID_SERIAL}-part%n"

KERNEL=="sd*[!0-9]|sr*", SYSFS{ieee1394_id}=="*", ENV{ID_SERIAL}="$sysfs{ieee1394_id}", ENV{ID_BUS}="ieee1394"
KERNEL=="sd*[!0-9]|sr*", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="", IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/usb_id -x"
KERNEL=="sd*[!0-9]|sr*", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="", IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/scsi_id -g -x -s %p -d $tempnode"
KERNEL=="sd*[!0-9]|sr*", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="", IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/scsi_id -g -x -a -s %p -d $tempnode"
KERNEL=="dasd*[!0-9]", IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/dasd_id --export $tempnode"
KERNEL=="sd*[!0-9]|sr*|dasd*[!0-9]", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/$env{ID_BUS}-$env{ID_SERIAL}"

# for partitions import parent information
KERNEL=="sd*[0-9]|dasd*[0-9]", IMPORT{parent}=="ID_*"
KERNEL=="sd*[0-9]|dasd*[0-9]", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/$env{ID_BUS}-$env{ID_SERIAL}-part%n"

# by-path (shortest physical path)
KERNEL=="*[!0-9]|sr*", ENV{ID_TYPE}=="?*", IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/path_id %p", SYMLINK+="disk/by-path/$env{ID_PATH}"
KERNEL=="sr*", GOTO="persistent_end"
KERNEL=="*[0-9]", IMPORT{parent}=="ID_*"
KERNEL=="*[0-9]", ENV{ID_PATH}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-path/$env{ID_PATH}-part%n"

# by-label/by-uuid (filesystem properties)
KERNEL=="*[!0-9]", SYSFS{removable}=="1", GOTO="persistent_end"
IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/vol_id --export $tempnode"
ENV{ID_FS_UUID}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-uuid/$env{ID_FS_UUID}"
ENV{ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-label/$env{ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE}"

# BIOS Enhanced Disk Device
KERNEL=="*[!0-9]", IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/edd_id --export $tempnode"
KERNEL=="*[!0-9]", ENV{ID_EDD}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/edd-$env{ID_EDD}"
KERNEL=="*[0-9]", ENV{ID_EDD}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/edd-$env{ID_EDD}-part%n"

LABEL="persistent_end"

#####################################
# Persistent block device stuff - end
#####################################

Any Ideas?
Regards
Vinny.
P.S.
I have seen what looks like a fix, by writing an additional udev rule but I'm not sure if thats's the way to go yet.

[Seve]

Hello:
Have you tried the newest kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
It seems to have fixed some of that behaviour, at least here?
Seve

[vinster]

Hi Seve
sorry I should have said
[vin@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
thing is I was thinking about a usb hard drive mainly so I could backup when new versions of fedora are launched. luckily and for me unusually I backed and tried to update to FC6 from 5 but amongst other things Firefox went pear shaped.

[Seve]

Hell vinster:
You may want to have a quick scan through bugzilla .... I know there were / are quite a few bugs related to this issue.
I did not do an update, rather I did a clean install, so I don't know if it is related to the update from FC5 -- FC6 or not.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

Seve