RP: USB disk problem on SuSE 9.1

I hope this re-post doesn't bug anyone... My problem is: 1) I have an USB flash disk that used to work some YOU ago (recognised as Oti Flash Disk or something like that) 2) After an (official) kernel upgrade the disk is recognised as a Oti Ultra Floppy, so it's being mounted with subfs. The ID number is wrongly reported to be 7777777777777777 (it's in fact mounted in usb-storage-7777777777777777:0:0:0p1) 3) Both mounting with subfs and vfat cafile:/home/silvio/documents/Downloads/Incoming uses ANY command to hang and/or block the entire system I hope someone can help me, Thanks in advance S.