Hi All,
I found the fix and it has to do with blocking external ports such as USB devices from being mounted and seems to work very well against all external block devices, including my shiny new Promise VTrak 310s
This is from Test server:
[root@sadl25210 rules.d]# pwd
/etc/udev/rules.d
[root@sadl25210 rules.d]# ls -al
total 200
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 10 12:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 10 12:44 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 515 Jun 1 2011 05-udev-early.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 948 Aug 4 2011 40-multipath.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16732 Jun 1 2011 50-udev.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 471 Jun 1 2011 51-hotplug.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58016 Oct 13 2006 60-libsane.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143 Jun 7 2011 60-net.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1088 Jul 17 2006 60-pcmcia.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 316 Sep 22 2010 60-raw.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9366 Jun 14 2011 60-wacom.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129 Jun 14 2011 61-uinput-stddev.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 214 Jun 14 2011 61-uinput-wacom.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1823 Sep 18 2008 85-pcscd_ccid.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114 Aug 28 2008 90-alsa.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61 Jun 1 2011 90-dm.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 Nov 4 2010 90-hal.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107 Jun 1 2011 95-pam-console.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292 Apr 28 2011 98-kexec.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2319 Jul 9 2008 bluetooth.rules
[root@sadl25210 rules.d]#
On the production server there is also a file called 07-disable.rules, which disables all external block devices.
Commented that out and rebooted and now it is creating the devices.
Well that is many hours of my life I won’t get back.
Joe