Comment 11 for bug 216483

@mash:
Did you check your /etc/fstab if it has corresponding entries? These should *not* have "noauto" in if you want the drives to mount automatically. I never tested this, but probably with proper fstab entries they should be handled as on boot when connected.

Well: That was much easier on Feisty - there they did this automatically when there have been no corresponding entries in /etc/fstab stating a different behavior. But I guess then users asked how to turn this OFF...