On 09/17/03 2:32 PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > First, are you sure that your drive is in fact being detected as > /dev/sda? What does your output from dmesg say? What is at the end of > your /var/log/messages? Here is the relevant output from dmesg. hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x1005/0xb113) is not claimed by any active driver. Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: USB Model: Flash Drive Rev: 1.12 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 2 USB Mass Storage support registered. Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 507901 512-byte hdwr sectors (260 MB) sda: Write Protect is off /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 64 I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 0 FAT: unable to read boot sector I have usbmgr installed under debian which I believe is supposed to take care of loading and unloading modules for usb devices. -- Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD