microsd card in card reader: [185774.656153] usb 2-5.4.2: new high speed USB device number 40 using ehci_hcd [185774.777369] usb-storage 2-5.4.2:1.0: Quirks match for vid 05e3 pid 0723: 8000 [185774.777429] scsi38 : usb-storage 2-5.4.2:1.0 [185775.777682] scsi 38:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9451 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [185775.778432] sd 38:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0 [185775.974911] sd 38:0:0:0: [sdh] 15564800 512-byte logical blocks: (7.96 GB/7.42 GiB) [185775.976032] sd 38:0:0:0: [sdh] Write Protect is off [185775.976036] sd 38:0:0:0: [sdh] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 [185775.977158] sd 38:0:0:0: [sdh] No Caching mode page present [185775.977162] sd 38:0:0:0: [sdh] Assuming drive cache: write through [185775.981526] sd 38:0:0:0: [sdh] No Caching mode page present [185775.981537] sd 38:0:0:0: [sdh] Assuming drive cache: write through [185775.982804] sdh: sdh1 sdh2 [185775.986149] sd 38:0:0:0: [sdh] No Caching mode page present [185775.986162] sd 38:0:0:0: [sdh] Assuming drive cache: write through [185775.986167] sd 38:0:0:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI removable disk usb thumb drive: [187096.200167] usb 2-5.4.1: new high speed USB device number 41 using ehci_hcd [187096.338792] scsi39 : usb-storage 2-5.4.1:1.0 [187097.337189] scsi 39:0:0:0: Direct-Access 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [187097.337943] sd 39:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg9 type 0 [187097.338662] sd 39:0:0:0: [sdi] 3788800 512-byte logical blocks: (1.93 GB/1.80 GiB) [187097.339654] sd 39:0:0:0: [sdi] Write Protect is off [187097.339659] sd 39:0:0:0: [sdi] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 [187097.340655] sd 39:0:0:0: [sdi] Asking for cache data failed [187097.340660] sd 39:0:0:0: [sdi] Assuming drive cache: write through [187097.346031] sd 39:0:0:0: [sdi] Asking for cache data failed [187097.346035] sd 39:0:0:0: [sdi] Assuming drive cache: write through [187097.458206] sdi: sdi1 [187097.577159] sd 39:0:0:0: [sdi] Asking for cache data failed [187097.577164] sd 39:0:0:0: [sdi] Assuming drive cache: write through [187097.577169] sd 39:0:0:0: [sdi] Attached SCSI removable disk But: 11:23 hrw@puchatek:~$ udisks --dump|grep device-file device-file: /dev/sda device-file: /dev/sda3 device-file: /dev/sdb device-file: /dev/sdb1 device-file: /dev/sdc device-file: /dev/sdc1 device-file: /dev/sdc2 device-file: /dev/sdd device-file: /dev/sde device-file: /dev/sdf device-file: /dev/sdg device-file: /dev/sr0 While: 11:23 hrw@puchatek:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 465,8G 0 └─sda3 8:3 0 465,8G 0 /home/hrw/HDD sdb 8:16 0 1,4T 0 └─sdb1 8:17 0 1,4T 0 /media/storage sdc 8:32 0 55,9G 0 ├─sdc1 8:33 0 30G 0 / └─sdc2 8:34 0 25,9G 0 /home sr0 11:0 1 3,7G 0 sdh 8:112 1 7,4G 0 ├─sdh1 8:113 1 70,6M 0 └─sdh2 8:114 1 7,4G 0 sdi 8:128 1 1,8G 0 └─sdi1 8:129 1 1,8G 0 For me it looks like udisks are not able to recognize hotplugged devices on my system. The problem is that I use a tool which rely on udisks to present me a list of devices to which I can write to.