I have a usb mouse and an iomega 31475 cd burner that's also usb on my red hat 7.0 system. redhat finds the mouse fine, and it can be used and it also finds the usb drive and makes it click on boot up but then it can't identify it further and leaves it unuseable after boot up. That leaves me wondering what red hat uses to interrogate usb devices. If there was something like setserial I might be able to figure out how to get that drive working. If lspci could be used like grep so you could focus in on one particular device I might be able to get information on the drive that way. We were talking about tape drives before the shellworld.net hack, and later I tried using the taper program if it's installed it may only be a matter of telling it what port you hung your tape drive on and you get a menu driven backup restore interface. Interestingly, it said magnetic tape drive not found use the -t option when I started it up so red hat isn't even with kudzu all that effective in detecting parallel port tape drives. When it comes up it tells me I have an unknown class device tapedrive on lP0.