usb stick recognition

[Andreas (Andy) Roddau]

Greetings:

As time permits, I've been learning the nuances of FC6 (and Linux for that 
matter) and I'm grateful that my Nvidia setup works, but I need to be pointed 
in the right direction here.

If I insert my USB memory stick, thumb drive or whatever you choose to call 
it, the desktop reports its presence and I can access the data on it.  This 
is good.

If I have left the stick in the PC and power it up, it does not see the USB 
stick.  Do I have have to add something in the "fstab" file (like I did for 
the Windows drive)?  If I remove and re-insert, I can read it again, but I'm 
sure there is something I'm missing.

TIA

Oh yeah....

Athlon 64 X2 3800 w/ 2GB RAM (M2N-E mobo) running FC6 
2.6.18-1.2798/KDE3.5.5-0.2.

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