Alan, I will also repeat that when I unplug the drive, then plug it back in to the same socket (and nothing happens), when I do an "lsusb" command from a terminal window, all of a sudden the device comes alive and mounts. If you would like me to, I can replicate that with a trace also. md -- 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