Here's the udisks --dump with the usb recognized: ======================================================================== Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda device: 8:0 device-file: /dev/sda presentation: /dev/sda by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MHS2040AT_D_NLA5T3515N2C by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHS2040_NLA5T3515N2C by-path: /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0 detected at: Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT system internal: 1 removable: 0 has media: 1 (detected at Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT) detects change: 0 detection by polling: 0 detection inhibitable: 0 detection inhibited: 0 is read only: 0 is mounted: 0 mount paths: mounted by uid: 0 presentation hide: 0 presentation nopolicy: 0 presentation name: presentation icon: size: 40007761920 block size: 512 job underway: no usage: type: version: uuid: label: partition table: scheme: mbr count: 5 drive: vendor: ATA model: FUJITSU MHS2040AT D revision: 3005 serial: NLA5T3515N2C WWN: detachable: 0 can spindown: 1 rotational media: Yes, unknown rate write-cache: enabled ejectable: 0 adapter: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/adapters/0000_3a00_3a1f_2e1 ports: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/adapters/0000_3a00_3a1f_2e1/host0 similar devices: media: compat: interface: ata if speed: (unknown) ATA SMART: Updated at Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:50 PM EDT overall assessment: Disk has a few bad sectors =============================================================================== Attribute Current|Worst|Threshold Status Value Type Updates =============================================================================== raw-read-error-rate 100|100| 46 good 167257 Pre-fail Online throughput-performance 100|100| 30 good 0 Pre-fail Offline spin-up-time 100|100| 25 good 25.6 secs Pre-fail Online start-stop-count 94| 94| 0 n/a 3290 Old-age Online reallocated-sector-count 99| 99| 24 good 8 sectors Pre-fail Online seek-error-rate 100|100| 47 good 247 Pre-fail Online seek-time-performance 100|100| 19 good 0 Pre-fail Offline power-on-hours 76| 76| 0 n/a 48031048800000 Old-age Online spin-retry-count 100|100| 20 good 0 Pre-fail Online power-cycle-count 88| 88| 0 n/a 1866 Old-age Online power-off-retract-count 99| 99| 0 n/a 172 Old-age Online load-cycle-count 88| 88| 0 n/a 41695 Old-age Online temperature-celsius-2 20| 1| 0 n/a 71C / 160F Old-age Online hardware-ecc-recovered 100|100| 0 n/a 1792 Old-age Online reallocated-event-count 99| 99| 0 n/a 8 Old-age Online current-pending-sector 50| 30| 0 n/a 5 sectors Old-age Online offline-uncorrectable 95| 95| 0 n/a 10 sectors Old-age Offline udma-crc-error-count 200|200| 0 n/a 0 Old-age Online multi-zone-error-rate 100|100| 60 good 11075 Pre-fail Online run-out-cancel 98| 98| 0 n/a 0 Old-age Online ======================================================================== Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda1 native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1 device: 8:1 device-file: /dev/sda1 presentation: /dev/sda1 by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MHS2040AT_D_NLA5T3515N2C-part1 by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHS2040_NLA5T3515N2C-part1 by-id: /dev/disk/by-uuid/68a4b2dd-05e5-4b3e-a3b0-282186925df5 by-path: /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 detected at: Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT system internal: 1 removable: 0 has media: 1 (detected at Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT) detects change: 0 detection by polling: 0 detection inhibitable: 0 detection inhibited: 0 is read only: 0 is mounted: 0 mount paths: mounted by uid: 0 presentation hide: 0 presentation nopolicy: 0 presentation name: presentation icon: size: 18048585728 block size: 512 job underway: no usage: filesystem type: ext4 version: 1.0 uuid: 68a4b2dd-05e5-4b3e-a3b0-282186925df5 label: partition: part of: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda scheme: mbr number: 1 type: 0x83 flags: boot offset: 32256 alignment offset: 0 size: 18048585728 label: uuid: ======================================================================== Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda2 native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda2 device: 8:2 device-file: /dev/sda2 presentation: /dev/sda2 by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MHS2040AT_D_NLA5T3515N2C-part2 by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHS2040_NLA5T3515N2C-part2 by-path: /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0-part2 detected at: Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT system internal: 1 removable: 0 has media: 1 (detected at Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT) detects change: 0 detection by polling: 0 detection inhibitable: 0 detection inhibited: 0 is read only: 0 is mounted: 0 mount paths: mounted by uid: 0 presentation hide: 0 presentation nopolicy: 0 presentation name: presentation icon: size: 1024 block size: 512 job underway: no usage: type: version: uuid: label: partition: part of: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda scheme: mbr number: 2 type: 0x05 flags: offset: 18049137664 alignment offset: 0 size: 21958624256 label: uuid: ======================================================================== Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda5 native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda5 device: 8:5 device-file: /dev/sda5 presentation: /dev/sda5 by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MHS2040AT_D_NLA5T3515N2C-part5 by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHS2040_NLA5T3515N2C-part5 by-id: /dev/disk/by-uuid/b47a66ad-b3a8-42b3-b2eb-aa6c2d5e64a7 by-path: /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0-part5 detected at: Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT system internal: 1 removable: 0 has media: 1 (detected at Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT) detects change: 0 detection by polling: 0 detection inhibitable: 0 detection inhibited: 0 is read only: 0 is mounted: 0 mount paths: mounted by uid: 0 presentation hide: 0 presentation nopolicy: 0 presentation name: presentation icon: size: 1686150144 block size: 512 job underway: no usage: other type: swap version: 2 uuid: b47a66ad-b3a8-42b3-b2eb-aa6c2d5e64a7 label: partition: part of: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda scheme: mbr number: 5 type: 0x82 flags: offset: 38321611776 alignment offset: 0 size: 1686150144 label: uuid: ======================================================================== Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda6 native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda6 device: 8:6 device-file: /dev/sda6 presentation: /dev/sda6 by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MHS2040AT_D_NLA5T3515N2C-part6 by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHS2040_NLA5T3515N2C-part6 by-id: /dev/disk/by-uuid/187d225d-75b6-4220-a3b3-3e250edde89a by-path: /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0-part6 detected at: Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT system internal: 1 removable: 0 has media: 1 (detected at Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT) detects change: 0 detection by polling: 0 detection inhibitable: 0 detection inhibited: 0 is read only: 0 is mounted: 1 mount paths: / mounted by uid: 0 presentation hide: 0 presentation nopolicy: 0 presentation name: presentation icon: size: 19380830208 block size: 512 job underway: no usage: filesystem type: ext4 version: 1.0 uuid: 187d225d-75b6-4220-a3b3-3e250edde89a label: partition: part of: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda scheme: mbr number: 6 type: 0x83 flags: offset: 18049138688 alignment offset: 0 size: 19380830208 label: uuid: ======================================================================== Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda7 native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda7 device: 8:7 device-file: /dev/sda7 presentation: /dev/sda7 by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MHS2040AT_D_NLA5T3515N2C-part7 by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHS2040_NLA5T3515N2C-part7 by-id: /dev/disk/by-uuid/e4e7c8cf-0bf1-4905-bd56-5f21ece0bd3e by-path: /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0-part7 detected at: Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT system internal: 1 removable: 0 has media: 1 (detected at Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT) detects change: 0 detection by polling: 0 detection inhibitable: 0 detection inhibited: 0 is read only: 0 is mounted: 0 mount paths: mounted by uid: 0 presentation hide: 0 presentation nopolicy: 0 presentation name: presentation icon: size: 890241024 block size: 512 job underway: no usage: other type: swap version: 2 uuid: e4e7c8cf-0bf1-4905-bd56-5f21ece0bd3e label: partition: part of: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda scheme: mbr number: 7 type: 0x82 flags: offset: 37431017472 alignment offset: 0 size: 890241024 label: uuid: ======================================================================== Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdb native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:0e.2/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdb device: 8:16 device-file: /dev/sdb presentation: /dev/sdb by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_2.0_Flash_Disk_SI3A3FE9Z8RASEXN-0:0 by-path: /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:0e.2-usb-0:3:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 detected at: Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT system internal: 0 removable: 1 has media: 1 (detected at Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT) detects change: 1 detection by polling: 1 detection inhibitable: 1 detection inhibited: 0 is read only: 0 is mounted: 0 mount paths: mounted by uid: 0 presentation hide: 0 presentation nopolicy: 0 presentation name: presentation icon: size: 1014497280 block size: 512 job underway: no usage: type: version: uuid: label: partition table: scheme: mbr count: 1 drive: vendor: USB 2.0 model: Flash Disk revision: 1100 serial: SI3A3FE9Z8RASEXN WWN: detachable: 1 can spindown: 0 rotational media: Yes, unknown rate write-cache: unknown ejectable: 0 adapter: Unknown ports: similar devices: media: compat: interface: usb if speed: 480000000 bits/s ATA SMART: not available ======================================================================== Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdb1 native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:0e.2/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdb/sdb1 device: 8:17 device-file: /dev/sdb1 presentation: /dev/sdb1 by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_2.0_Flash_Disk_SI3A3FE9Z8RASEXN-0:0-part1 by-id: /dev/disk/by-uuid/1E0F-3031 by-path: /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:0e.2-usb-0:3:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 detected at: Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT system internal: 0 removable: 0 has media: 1 (detected at Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT) detects change: 0 detection by polling: 0 detection inhibitable: 0 detection inhibited: 0 is read only: 0 is mounted: 1 mount paths: /media/FELICIAUSB mounted by uid: 1000 presentation hide: 0 presentation nopolicy: 0 presentation name: presentation icon: size: 1014384128 block size: 512 job underway: no usage: filesystem type: vfat version: FAT32 uuid: 1E0F-3031 label: FELICIAUSB partition: part of: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdb scheme: mbr number: 1 type: 0x0b flags: boot offset: 31232 alignment offset: 0 size: 1014384128 label: uuid: ======================================================================== Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0 native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0 device: 11:0 device-file: /dev/sr0 presentation: /dev/sr0 by-path: /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-1:0:0:0 detected at: Fri 11 Jun 2010 08:41:19 PM EDT system internal: 0 removable: 1 has media: 0 detects change: 1 detection by polling: 1 detection inhibitable: 1 detection inhibited: 0 is read only: 0 is mounted: 0 mount paths: mounted by uid: 0 presentation hide: 0 presentation nopolicy: 0 presentation name: presentation icon: size: 0 block size: 0 job underway: no usage: type: version: uuid: label: drive: vendor: Toshiba model: DVD-ROM SD-C2612 revision: 1A25 serial: WWN: detachable: 0 can spindown: 0 rotational media: Yes, unknown rate write-cache: unknown ejectable: 1 adapter: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/adapters/0000_3a00_3a1f_2e1 ports: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/adapters/0000_3a00_3a1f_2e1/host1 similar devices: media: compat: optical_cd optical_dvd optical_mrw optical_mrw_w interface: scsi if speed: (unknown) ATA SMART: not available ========================================================================