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I don't know any way, short of using .fdi-files, to detect whether the
media can be removed (e.g. card-reader vs. memory stick). I even got a
card reader that completely powers down when media is removed. Should
this be classified as supporting removable storage? My other card reader
stays powered up both only top-level block devices are shown.

A sane default could be to say removable media not supported, and patch
with .fdi files as appropriate? I mean, it will work without .fdi files
but the .fdi file is the icing on the cake that gives e.g. a nice icon
and other properties. I believe this is also how Mac OS X work.

> but has a very strange layout as
> it has in fact 4 volumes depending on a "security" switch, the show up
> as sda1 and sdb1-3, three of witch are there to make it appear as a
> floppy drive in one mode.
> 

A floppy drive? How does this look - can you send the output of lshal
and/or a screenshot?

> So, two volumes you may want to mount, both none seperable from the
> device, showing up as two devicesows that for a complictaed arrangement?

hal will create, through a callout, fstab entries for all non-top-level
block devices that is related to the device. g-v-m tries to mount all
of them. Only the ones with supported filesystems are actually mounted.

So how is this a problem?

Cheers,
David