Comment 18 for bug 452768

First, please have a look at bug 463347. The udev update there fixes a lot of those cases.

In Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic), hal has nothing to do with hanlding storage devices any more, so poking it won't help.

If it still happens with the new udev, please do "ubuntu-bug", select "storage problem", and file a new bug with this (this will collect the necessary debug information). Please let me know the number here, so that I can link them.

Thanks!