I have a Maxtor USB hard drive that I use for backup purposes. Previously when I plugged the drive into a USB port, the drive was recognized automatically and mounted to /media/USBDISK I am using SUSE 10.0 (x86_64) version. I have googled on udev, hal, and hotplug. I have looked at /etc/sysconfig and /etc/hotplug, but haven't been able to figure anything out. If I plug the drive into another SuSE 10.0 system it is recognized and all the data is there. I know the event that triggerd the failure, and it is related to Windows :). My machine also runs vmware since the business has some apps that run only on Windows. vmware has a feature that if the guest operating system has the focus, then that operating system will recognize the usb device. Unfortunately Windows had the focus when I plugged in the usb drive. A number of dialogue boxes in both Windows and linxu opened. I was in a hurry and clicked no on all of them. Anyway, after giving the focus back to SuSE and replugging the usb drive, it doesn't recognize it. I have found articles that talk about the entries to put in fstab if you don't want hotplugging and automount, but it was convenient to have hotplugging work. Any ideas on fixing this would be appreciated. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 Tel 914-632-3778 Fax 914-632-5502