Comment 1 for bug 139748

I can confirm this on 7.04 and 7.10beta (for scenario 2). My drive is in a SATA caddy (SATA2 controller/AHCI). When pluuged, the event shows up in hal (using 'lshal -m'), but it seems that gnome-volume-manager simply ignores it. The drive is listed in fstab (based on UID) and if I type in "mount /media/backup", the drive gets mounted OK and the icon appears on the desktop. I can then umount the drive using the right-click action. In other words, only automatic mount step seems broken.