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  1. Bug #153768
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 153768

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote : Re: [Bug 153768] Re: External SATA (eSATA) removable disk (formatted with Ext3) not mounted automatically: hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000

It's not exactly a hardware-specific thing. IIRC, it's just that the lower
levels of the system have no conception of SATA as anything but internal.