Hell list; I bought two of the above to use in this: http://www.procare.com.tw/idd35.asp?prod_id=137 Which ic a network Bittorent appliance. "eShare lets you do 24/7 non-stop sharing while freeing up your computer for other purposes." One I left in the package the other I pkugged into my F11 system. As root "fdisk -l" shows: Disk /dev/sdc: 134.2 GB, 134217728000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16317 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x2c6b7369 This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 ? 120513 235786 925929529+ 68 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdc2 ? 82801 116350 269488144 79 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdc3 ? 33551 120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdc4 ? 86812 86813 10668+ 49 Unknown Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order So I deleted all the partitions and make an ext3 filesystem on it. When I re-plugged it in I got "bad superblock" I then tried ext2, same result. XFS worked but the filenames would scramble. NTFS format sat at 0% for an hour. Ok so I took the other one from its package and did a dd: [root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/sdd of=/dev/sdc dd: reading `/dev/sdd': Input/output error 133856+0 records in 133856+0 records out 68534272 bytes (69 MB) copied, 966.375 s, 70.9 kB/s Now the drive is seen as fat32 when plugged in and works. So what is going on? Why only 69 MB copied? Is there any way to get this to work? Lots of webpages (youtube) use special chars " ! ? etc. Fat32 barfs on them. I knew about U3 on flash drives, I did not know about compression. Mick M. Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds, whichever comes first. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines