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snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 893

udisks2 sees usb storage as internal

Since some days my MP3 player is seen by KDE as an internal storage device rather than external. This is quite annoying since device notifier doesn't show it and, most of all, my music doesn't show up in amarok anymore. I think that the problem is with udisks2 recognizing the device as internal.
First of all, here's the device:

$ udisksctl info -b /dev/sdc
/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdc:
  org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block:
    Configuration:              []
    CryptoBackingDevice:        '/'
    Device:                     /dev/sdc
    DeviceNumber:               2080
    Drive:                      '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Philips_GoGear_Raga_18000000E0278D140002DCD4E2D40D14'
    HintAuto:                   false
    HintIconName:               
    HintIgnore:                 false
    HintName:                   
    HintPartitionable:          true
    HintSymbolicIconName:       
    HintSystem:                 true
    Id:                         by-id-usb-Philips_GoGear_Raga_18000000E0278D140002DCD4E2D40D14-0:0
    IdLabel:                    
    IdType:                     
    IdUUID:                     
    IdUsage:                    
    IdVersion:                  
    MDRaid:                     '/'
    MDRaidMember:               '/'
    PreferredDevice:            /dev/sdc
    ReadOnly:                   false
    Size:                       3874488320
    Symlinks:                   /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Philips_GoGear_Raga_18000000E0278D140002DCD4E2D40D14-0:0
                                /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:0b.1-usb-0:6:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
  org.freedesktop.UDisks2.PartitionTable:
    Type:               dos

I tried to:

1) install gvfs: no success.
2) fix as suggested here (using UDISKS_SYSTEM rather than UDISKS_SYSTEM_INTERNAL): the device can be mounted without typing the password, but it's still seen as internal.
3) downgrade to udisks2 2.0.1-1 from 2.1.0-2: no success.

Can anyone please help me or give me a hint? Thanks.