External drives not detected at boot time?

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:45:22 -0500, "Adam Turk" <bofh1234 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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 bug 204396 obviously has nothing to do with Michel's problem,
because it refers to a specific failure scenario which cannot be
affected by a power cycle.

For the case of libusual, Dave Jones have not dropped ub from Rawhide
kernels yet. Perhaps he's giving me time to find an acceptable
workaround or somehow work the class-based notifier into upstream.
But neither the notifier patch is applied, so we continue to have
this problem. So, once Michel figures out his problem, he may run
into the 204396, and would need to apply one of the workarounds
listed there.

-- Pete