esata requires admin password

[Garry Judge]

With 9.04 this esata drive used to automount without requiring an administritive password. Now with 9.10 it requires a password to mount.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: judgeg 2228 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6adc000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'Intel G45 DEVCTG'
   Components : 'HDA:111d76b2,1028024f,00100302 HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000 HDA:80862802,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 32
   Simple ctrls : 19
Date: Thu Nov 19 07:36:23 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=222ebe49-7410-4f4f-afdd-108747ff9ef8
HotplugNewDevices:

HotplugNewMounts: /dev/sdb1 /media/Data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6500
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic 2.6.31-14.48
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=3fe2a91f-1b70-4e19-865b-40bcb98b9893 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-14-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.24
SourcePackage: linux
Symptom: storage
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 12/03/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A10
dmi.board.name: 0NY667
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA10:bd12/03/2008:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0NY667:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[applecache(Nolan King) (nolanking)]

In 9.04 you are correct drives didnt need a password but now in 9.10 all drives whether in esata or partitions require passwords so in my opinion its not a bug but more of a feature.

[Garry Judge (garry-judge)]

>> its not a bug but more of a feature
If its a 'feature' then I should be able to turn it off.