With your manual configuration, the whole automounting magic is not involved at all. Can you please try to remove the udev rule and the fstab entry and check that it works fine then? If not, can you please do
lshal > hal.txt dmesg > dmesg.txt ls -l /dev/sd* > devices.txt and attach the resulting three text files here? Thanks! ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- at boot usb hard drive is not always mount https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/37589 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs