I'm on SuSE 10.0 and I've got my music on an external hard drive. I use Amarok to play it. Lately amarok has been stopping after a few songs have been played and when I investigate why it has stopped I find that my drive is no longer mounted and I can't get it remounted. ken@saturn>sudo mount /dev/sda1 /music mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist ... and the only way that I can find to fix the problem is to reboot the machine. So a) How do I stop this from happening and b) Are there any services that I can restart that will remedy this without having to reboot the machine? In addition, I've been having routine problems with the sound driver alsa and often have to restart it. But when I try to restart after this problem occurs I get the following set of errors... ken@saturn> sudo /usr/sbin/rcalsasound restart Shutting down sound driverERROR: Module snd_seq_dummy does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module snd_pcm_oss does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module snd_mixer_oss does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module snd_seq does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module snd_seq_device does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module snd_intel8x0 does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module snd_ac97_codec does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module snd_ac97_bus does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module snd_pcm does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module snd_timer does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module snd does not exist in /proc/modules ERROR: Module snd_page_alloc does not exist in /proc/modules failed Starting sound driver: intel8x0 done ... I can't help but think the drive mounting problem and this problem are related. The problem really manifests itself when I can't mount my backup drive either to backup my system because of course I can't mount any external drives once the error occurs (again until I reboot the system). Thanks for any assistance you can give. Ken -- ------s----a----m----s----i----x----e----d----d------ -- Ken Southerland Senior Consultant Sam Six EDD, Inc. 503-236-4288 http://www.samsixedd.com