Dapper wants to "spin up" my USB flash drive

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6-386

The best joke I have ever read!

I executed dmesg to find out why my USB SD-key is not being detected by gnome-volume-manager and found the following line:

[17179792.012000] sdb: Spinning up disk..................................................

What does dapper want to spin up in an SD flash card? This used to work in dapper by the way. I have no idea, why it is not working anymore. I did reboot the system but the behavior did not change.

Here is the complete dmesg output concerning this issue:

[17179746.192000] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[17179746.540000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[17179746.540000] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[17179746.540000] usb-storage: device found at 2
[17179746.540000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[17179746.540000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
[17179746.540000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[17179751.548000] Vendor: MG Model: SD-Key Rev: 1.00
[17179751.548000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[17179751.624000] sdb: Spinning up disk.........<6>usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2
[17179759.084000] .ready
[17179759.084000] sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
[17179759.084000] sdb : status=0, message=00, host=1, driver=00
[17179759.084000] sdb : sense not available.
[17179759.084000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[17179759.084000] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[17179759.084000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[17179759.092000] sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
[17179759.092000] sdb : status=0, message=00, host=1, driver=00
[17179759.092000] sdb : sense not available.
[17179759.092000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[17179759.092000] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[17179759.092000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[17179759.100000] sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
[17179759.100000] sdb : status=0, message=00, host=1, driver=00
[17179759.100000] sdb : sense not available.
[17179759.100000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[17179759.100000] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[17179759.100000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[17179759.100000] sdb:<3>Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
[17179759.104000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
[17179759.104000] unable to read partition table
[17179759.104000] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[17179759.104000] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[17179759.116000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[17179786.764000] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[17179786.928000] scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[17179786.928000] usb-storage: device found at 3
[17179786.928000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[17179791.936000] Vendor: MG Model: SD-Key Rev: 1.00
[17179791.936000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[17179792.012000] sdb: Spinning up disk..................................................