On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:39 pm, Jeff Spaleta wrote: [snip] > is hald running? > what is the partition layout on the usb storage devices you tried? > > -jef I can't find the tools I would like to check that. Please suggest something. The two devices are flash drives, 256M and 512M respectively, vfat file system. They mount on the 32bit FC3 machine upon which I am writing this. I did not attempt to connect a 8G harddrive with a single ext3 partition on it. yet. -jp