USB memory can't mount on kernel 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 & above

It is sad that yet another critical bug is found in Fedora 7. The symptom is simply, some USBthumbdrive or USB harddisks are not automatically detected & mounted since kernel 2.6.22.1-27.fc7.

The bug is documented here

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249282

And the solution as suggested on comment#25 works.

In /etc/udev/rules.d/05-udev-early.rules

Commenting out the line below does not work & it also disabled the sound card.

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="?*", ENV{MODALIAS}=="?*", RUN+="modprobe
$env{MODALIAS}", GOTO="skip_wait" 

Moving the line

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="ioerr_cnt" 

to before

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="?*", ENV{MODALIAS}=="?*", RUN+="modprobe
$env{MODALIAS}", GOTO="skip_wait" 

solved the problem.