Automount hotplug eSATA disk in OpenSUSE 11.1?

[Robert Krawitz]

   Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:25:46 -0400
   From: David Rosenstrauch <darose-prQxUZoa2zOsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>
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   On 10/02/2009 09:01 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
   > I just bought an eSATA/USB disk that (of course) I want to use as
   > eSATA.  It hotplugs just fine from the kernel perspective -- plug it
   > in and it sees it, unplug it and it goes away cleanly.  All the right
   > links get created in /dev/disk, also.
   > 
   > However, KDE doesn't recognize it as a removable disk.  I can
   > certainly work around this, but I'd rather not have to.  If I do a
   > hardware inventory under YaST, it doesn't think that it's
   > hotpluggable:

   > Any thoughts on this?

   IIRC, KDE uses DBUS and HAL for detecting hotplugged disks.  Do you have 
   those daemons running?

Yes, I do.  It detects USB hotplug disks just fine.

It looks like something lower level doesn't think my eSATA disk is
hotpluggable.