I have a problem with my firewire-connected removable hard drives. The drives were originally used in a Windows XP system but have been reformated using the Reiser file system for use in a SuSE Linux 9.0 environment. Once mounted, the drives work fine, mounted one at a time. The problem is more of an irritant than a real problem but I would like to get it fixed anyway. The problem is that on reboot, the firewire-connected drives fail the reiserfsck. I then have to go to maintenance mode, remount the root filesystem, and delete the sda1 entry in fstab. A reboot then works normally except that, of course, the drive is not mounted. One item that may be important is that I originally set up the system with one removable hard drive and then switched to another drive of the same brand and type. And no I don't remember whether the problem first appeared then or not. I was up to my eyeballs in other problems at the time. Second part of the problem... I haven't been able to figure out how to use the mount command to mount the drives. (I could use some help on that, as well.) Thus far, I've been using the YaST partitioner to mount the drive to /external1. After that, everything works until the next time I reboot. I have a feeling that the partitioner is not the correct way to mount the drives but, on the other hand, it should work. Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated. Don Henson