usb disks?? Automounting on /media once, slow writing

[René van Paassen]

Inserted a usb 2.0 disk, and the thing duly shows up on /media/usbdisk
However, writing was painfully slow, order of 100 kB/s

Tried a second disk, this one would not automount. After manually
mounting it (/dev/sde1) it ran well, with normal writing speed. 

Inserted the original disk again, and would not automount. After manual
mount (/dev/sde this time) it also ran well. 

uname -a
Linux pascua.localdomain 2.6.11-1.1323_FC4 #1 Thu May 19 03:23:12 EDT
2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 

Hardware is Athlon 64, with pieces from /proc/usb/devices:

T:  Bus=04 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S:  Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.11-1.1323_FC4 uhci_hcd
S:  Product=UHCI Host Controller
S:  SerialNumber=0000:00:10.2
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=255ms

T:  Bus=04 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  3 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=10d6 ProdID=1100 Rev= 1.00
S:  Product=USB 2.0(FS) FLASH DISK
S:  SerialNumber=USB 2.0(FS) FLASH DISK
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=05 Prot=50
Driver=usb-storage
E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms

BTW, FC4 looks great. My only remaining concern for x86_64 is how to get
a shockwave flash and a java plugin installed

Greetings, 

René