Automounting mp3 player in kde

Hi -
I really like kde feature where usb devices appear on the desktop, where they can be easily mounted. This is important for my wife cos she is techno-phobe!
when I plug my mp3 player (ibead400) everything work fine, it goes to /dev/sda1 and I can mount from desktop.
But - my wifes player (iaudio u3) is always on /dev/sda and kde does not like this. If I try to mount it say 'permission denied'.
Why do this player go to /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1?
Is there some way to make it work on kde anyway?
thanks for your help.

Strange... My iAudio (although it's an M5L) comes up as /dev/sda1... Anyway, I found that my card readeruses /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1, so I just added an extra line to /etc/fstab saying that /dev/sda can be mounted the same as /dev/sda1. I can't remember if KDE likes it, but "mount /dev/sda" and "mount /dev/sda1" do the right things when expected to.
Another alternative is write a udev rule that makes /dev/sda1 link to /dev/sda when it detects her MP3 player, then it should behave normally. The reason I havn't done this myself, is because I literally just thought of doing it...

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ouput:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 2570
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: ff000000-ff0fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: b7f00000-f7efffff
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)
Flags: fast devsel
Memory at fecf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 24d0
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at e000 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 24d0
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at e400 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 24d0
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at e800 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 24d0
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at ec00 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 24d0
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at ff27fc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
Memory behind bridge: ff100000-ff1fffff
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Kernel modules: intel-rng, iTCO_wdt
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 24d0
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at fc00 [size=16]
Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: ata_piix
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 24d1
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at d400 [size=8]
I/O ports at d000 [size=4]
I/O ports at cc00 [size=8]
I/O ports at c800 [size=4]
I/O ports at c400 [size=16]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: ata_piix
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 24d0
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
I/O ports at 0400 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 9761
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
I/O ports at dc00 [size=64]
Memory at ff27f800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at ff27f400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_intel8x0
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A9550GE/TD
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at a800 [size=256]
Memory at ff0f0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at ff0c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
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Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeonfb, radeon
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] (Secondary)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A9550GE/TD (Secondary)
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Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at ff0e0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
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02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
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Memory at ff1ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
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