External drive doesn't automount using HAL

Hello everyone, this is a problem I've been struggling with for about a week now, still no solution!
Bascially I want HAL to automount my external HD (USB) at start up as it has my music etc etc. I usually boot with the drive in the USB slot. Sometimes the drive is visible and I just need to click on it to mount it, others I need to unplug and plug it back it and it's fine, but I can't just boot up and have it available. I'm using KDEmod and have unchecked the "Mount as user" box as suggested by a forum I read, made no difference.
Under "ownership" both the user and group of the drive are "root", but this is the same with all my mounted drives, including my /home. My DAEMONs list from /etc/rc.conf is below
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @ipw3945d !network !net-profiles hal dhcdbd @networkmanager !netfs !crond @alsa @fam @kdm laptop-mode)
I have nothing to do with HAL in my MODULES line, should I? Thanks in advance! Let me know if ya'll need more information
*edit* everytime I have booted recently the drive is visible under "Storage" but unmounted.
Last edited by rettie (2008-08-25 22:30:45)

I have since got this working using the uDev solution at the bottom of this page:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev
yay now just need to sort the folder permissions on it (sigh)
*starts new thread...*

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