I have used an external IDE drive in a firewire box just fine on Fedora. Up to F11, I took the drive out and tossed the box, so did not try on F12. It "just worked" when I did it. Now I use USB 2.0. Mick M Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds, whichever comes first. # find / -name "*your base*" -exec chown us:us {} \; -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test