On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Alan Stern wrote: > That's the reason the mount failed. You'd think by now Sony could use > properly-designed USB interfaces for their cameras, but apparently they > can't. Incidentally, it's possible to prevent udev and hal from reading those sectors near the end. You can simply move or rename the programs that do it; then udev and hal won't be able to run them. I don't know where those programs are on OpenSuSE. On Fedora the two files are: /lib/udev/vol_id /usr/libexec/hald-probe-storage Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html