Just for closure, I followed the advice of michealk in this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...315#post936315

and now all is cool again.

mark

I am glad you finally have it working. I did not know what else to try

[root@Red_Hat_9 root]# rpm -qa |grep hotplug
hotplug-2002_04_01-17
[root@Red_Hat_9 root]# tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages
Jun 10 19:32:31 Red_Hat_9 kernel: Vendor: Sony Model: Sony DSC Rev: 3.28
Jun 10 19:32:31 Red_Hat_9 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun 10 19:32:31 Red_Hat_9 kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jun 10 19:32:32 Red_Hat_9 devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted
Jun 10 19:33:43 Red_Hat_9 kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Jun 10 19:33:44 Red_Hat_9 kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jun 10 19:33:44 Red_Hat_9 kernel: SCSI device sda: 126848 512-byte hdwr sectors (65 MB)
Jun 10 19:33:44 Red_Hat_9 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jun 10 19:33:44 Red_Hat_9 kernel: sda: sda1
Jun 10 19:33:44 Red_Hat_9 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1254


WHAT IN THE BLUE HELL DOES THE LAST LINE MEAN??????