Comment 23 for bug 396448

DK-Disks now provides the necessary support for this:

devicekit-disks (006-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Add a way to spin down drives
    - Fix segfault when starting a Linux MD array
    - Fix polling process title and turn off noisy debugging spew
    - Pass size of buffer to avoid Z_BUF_ERROR when compressing ATA SMART blob
    - Add --poll-for-media option to devkit-disks(1)
    - Work around media detection problems
    - Move implementation of DrivePollMedia into a separate process
    - Move data files into a separate directory
    - Misc fixes for optical disc detection
    - Fix up ATA SMART detection
    - Add Device:drive-is-rotational property
    - Add LinuxMdCreate method
    - Rely on the disk to spin itself down
    - Require latest libatasmart
    - Fix up object path mapping
    - Bug 23309 – Udev rules probe floppy drives when they shouldn't
    - Add a new :device-presentation-nopolicy property
    - Ignore loop and ram devices for now
    - Make FilesystemMount() accept an 'auth_no_user_interaction' option
    - Bug 23235 – Cannot mount disc with / (slash) in label
    - Hide recovery, boot, and hidden partitions from desktops
  * Drop debian/patches/*: All applied upstream.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:20:47 +0200

Now gvfs needs to use the auth_no_user_interaction option.