From: "Michel Salim" <michel salim gmail com>
In Rawhide, USB external drives are not detected if they are plugged in at boot time, requiring power-cycling before the required device nodes are created in /dev and gnome-volume-manager works. Has there been any changes in the boot process that might have caused this?
This problem has been around since August 2006. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204396 for the details.
The short version is it works for a little while then it stops working due to some update. It works again, stops working. repeat. There is no rhyme or reason to it.
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