After he read in archives recent remarks about hal behaviour Ronald Warsow called to my attention that Fedora 7 has the following file: /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi This policy file vanished from F8 and rawhide. If you will copy that file from some F7 system to a subdirectory of /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/, an existing one or new of your making, and restart hal, then various things about fixed drives start to conduct themselves in quite a bit saner manner. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list