I checked /proc/scsi/scsi and all the devices in the reader are there I have been using the reader under Red Hat 8 but have been moving everything over to my SuSE machines. I checked and the device is lun3 /dev/sdd1 but I cant mount it. Heres what happens: If I boot with the card reader attached the system hangs at "hardware detection" remove the device and CTRL+C and I finish booting. Plug in my Melco card Reader and: [usb-storage-0] shows up in the ps aux but as "SW" for its status [scsi-eh-0] also shows up status "DW" I try to "mount /dev/sdd1 /media/usb" and the mount goes into uniterruptible status and so I loose the terminal I try "hwinfo --usb" I get one line "SCSI.2:ioctl" and then that also goes uniterruptible and I loose another terminal after plugging in the reader I get the "/usr/sbin/hwscan --usb --fast" line showing up in ps aux and its status is again "D" this remains until I reboot I remove the reader and reattach and it starts all over again with the old hwscan still there plus a new one. I ran "hwscan --list" and it sees the "Melco CF card Reader", "Melco MS card reader", "Melco xD/SM card reader", "Melco SD card reader" all with cfg="new", available=no I checked lsmod and usb-storage is loaded after attaching the card reader and yes multi LUN support is enabled in the kernel So now I am confused....Does anyone have an idea why SuSE 8.2 hangs on this reader but RedHat 8 works and how I can get this resolved so I can ditch the old OS. (okay so SuSE 9 is out but I don't have my copy yet, being in Japan SuSE only has one reseller here) Any help appreciated Dave Blomberg