10.04 BUG? Can not recognize USB DIsks

[Jeff Lane]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:53, Maxime Alarie <malarie at processia.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, It recognizes it, also displays an icon on your desktop, even in Places, but its not mounted automatically.  Its mounted when you access it.

It is a bug of sorts:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hdparm/+bug/515023

It's not ALL USB disks, only some of them, for some reason.  But there
have been quite a few bugs opened about this issue.