hi i also have the same problem
i bought an SATA to USB case and put my old sata disk in.
and it don't work on karmic ...
i did
sudo killall devkit-disks-daemon
sudo strace -vftt -s 1024 -o /tmp/dk-disks.trace /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-daemon
saw some text on screen
put the usb drive in
saw some other text on screen
wait a little, then did a CTRL + C
hi i also have the same problem
i bought an SATA to USB case and put my old sata disk in.
and it don't work on karmic ...
i did devicekit- disks/devkit- disks-daemon
sudo killall devkit-disks-daemon
sudo strace -vftt -s 1024 -o /tmp/dk-disks.trace /usr/lib/
saw some text on screen
put the usb drive in
saw some other text on screen
wait a little, then did a CTRL + C
here is the bzip2 version, hope this will help