I have a couple of USB mass storage devices. Why does hal-subfs-mount unmounts my devices? How can I stop it? System is SuSE Linux 10.0 with 2.6.16-AS24-default through apt repos.

Doing tail -f /var/log/messages while connecting one of them returns:

Mar 14 10:53:00 fistiki kernel: usb 5-1.1: new high speed USB device
using ehci_hcd and address 10
Mar 14 10:53:00 fistiki kernel: usb 5-1.1: configuration #1 chosen from
1 choice
Mar 14 10:53:00 fistiki kernel: scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
Storage devices
Mar 14 10:53:00 fistiki kernel: usb-storage: device found at 10
Mar 14 10:53:00 fistiki kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to
settle before scanning
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MPE3102AT
Rev: 0 0
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: SCSI device sdb: 20016348 512-byte hdwr
sectors (10248 MB)
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: sdb: Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: SCSI device sdb: 20016348 512-byte hdwr
sectors (10248 MB)
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: sdb: Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: sdb: sdb1
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki hal-subfs-mount[6764]: SYMLINKS::
disk/by-id/usb-FUJITSU_MPE3102AT_DEF107F71570
disk/by-path/usb-DEF107F71570:0:0:0
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki hal-subfs-mount[6764]: MOUNT_POINT:: /media/MOVING
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki hal-subfs-mount[6764]: MOUNTPOINT:: /media/MOVING
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki hal-subfs-mount[6764]: Collected mount options
and Called(8192) /bin/mount -t subfs -o
fs=floppyfss,sync,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,utf8=true /dev/sdb1
"/media/MOVING"
Mar 14 10:53:06 fistiki hal-subfs-mount[6764]: By hald-subfs-mount
created dir /media/MOVING got removed.

/etc/fstab:

/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hdb6 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda5 /windows/storage ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /windows/temporary ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda3 /windows/winxp ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0

fdisk returns:
Disk /dev/sdb: 10.2 GB, 10248370176 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1245 10000431 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

The disks worked fine until I updated the whole system using apt upgrade and the repositories in http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ap...urces.list.FTP

Going back is not an option anymore