usb storage devices

[Dale Raby <daleraby gmail com>]

Hello:

I am running Fedora Core 3.  

Recently I ran Yum Update and now find that my USB storage devices (a
Kingston "pen" drive" and an Iomega Zip 250 drive) are no longer
detected by the system.  I had this problem once before, and solved it
by re-installing with the original disks and not updating.  I suppose
I could do the same thing again, but surely there must be a better
solution that avoiding updates!

Both devices worked fine previous to the updates, and they still work
on the same hardware using Knoppix.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Dale