After sitting idle for about 20 hours, I booted 9.2 this evening to find a new icon for the 160GB IDE drive { hard drive (dev/hda1)} and another for the IDE Zip250 drive { floppy (/dev/sdc)} neither of which have been present in "My Computer" prior to tonight's boot. Trying to read the IDE 160GB drive results in an error message which reads "an error occurred while loading drives:/hda1.desktop. The file or folder does not exist". Since this is a 160GB drive I thought there might be a problem with the DMA setup so looking at same I get: Current DMA Mode as "ultraDMA/100" Device name as "GY160P0" Type as "Disk" Device as "/dev/hda" Required Mode as "No change." I tried making a change to ultraDMA/133 just in case but it made no difference. Any guidance greatly appreciated. When clicking on the new icon for the Zip250 I get a can't read error regardless of what's in the zip drive. Both problems appear to be related to IDE devices but I have no clue as to why or how. Also, when trying to read the /root/media directory with Konqueror it takes between 30 and 60 seconds to read it. Any other folder (file) is read immediately. Tonight I connected a USB Zip250 drive to see what 9.2 would do with it and within seconds the drive was found, an icon created in "My Computer" and I was able to both read from and write to this zip drive. I don't understand why the USB zip should be functional while the IDE zip drive is not. Again, any help here greatly appreciated. tia, dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe