If i use the sub-filesystem as it is standard after the installation i have allways messages like this in /var/log/messages : --- snip --- May 11 20:44:29 uruk kernel: cdrom: open failed. May 11 20:44:29 uruk submountd: mount failure, No medium found May 11 20:44:29 uruk kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) May 11 20:44:29 uruk kernel: SFW2-INext-DROP-NEW-CONNECT IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=195.174.169.211 DST=212.211.84.14 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=109 ID=24745 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1812 DPT=445 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B401010402) May 11 20:44:30 uruk kernel: cdrom: open failed. May 11 20:44:30 uruk kernel: cdrom: open failed. May 11 20:44:30 uruk submountd: mount failure, No medium found May 11 20:44:30 uruk kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) May 11 20:44:31 uruk kernel: cdrom: open failed. May 11 20:44:31 uruk kernel: cdrom: open failed. May 11 20:44:31 uruk submountd: mount failure, No medium found May 11 20:44:31 uruk kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) May 11 20:44:32 uruk kernel: cdrom: open failed. May 11 20:44:32 uruk kernel: cdrom: open failed. May 11 20:44:32 uruk submountd: mount failure, No medium found May 11 20:44:32 uruk kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) May 11 20:44:33 uruk kernel: cdrom: open failed. May 11 20:44:33 uruk kernel: cdrom: open failed. May 11 20:44:33 uruk submountd: mount failure, No medium found May 11 20:44:33 uruk kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) May 11 20:44:34 uruk kernel: cdrom: open failed. May 11 20:44:34 uruk kernel: cdrom: open failed. May 11 20:44:34 uruk submountd: mount failure, No medium found May 11 20:44:34 uruk kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) --- snap --- this appears every 5 sec in the same way; i did't inserted any cd or dvd in the drive ... if i type "umount /dev/dvd" it stops. when i try to change a cd/dvd i had to use the umount command too, because if not the drive starts to close when it is half-opened - i hate this when i'm just trying to insert or remove a cd ;-) if there is no other solution i'm going to replace this subfs lines in /etc/fstab with iso9660 and so on like in kernel 2.4.x; i hope this is possible to turn off the subfs. greetings, Franz Mit schönen Grüßen von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de