I posted this 2 places at the KDE forums and got nothing
 
why do I get 2 desktop icons for my firewire harddrive ? Memory sticks plugged in only result in 1 being displayed .
KDE 3.5 on Fedora C 5

this happens on 2 different machines . A 7 year old P2 and a 1 month old Core 2 Duo . 2 'LaCie' external firewire drives and 1 no-name external usb drive do this