Automount hotplug eSATA disk in OpenSUSE 11.1?

[darose-prQxUZoa2zOsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org (David Rosenstrauch)]

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?

DR