I put a 80 GiB HD with 33 partitions on it into a USB 2.0 enclosure, then connected it to a SuSE 9.2 system. 13 "SuSE hardware detection" windows popped up, and the taskbar became unusable for reaching any of them, which I needed to do to find the earliest ones without moving each off the stack they created all on top of each other, and only the last could be focused anyway. Why did I get 13 and not 14? No reason for "sdb4" I know, but why was "sdb2" was omitted? I selected 4 of those partitions for opening, those which as a normal ATA HD would be hdx3 msdos, hdx5 ext2, hdx7 ext3 & hdx9 msdos. The too-long-winded device names gave me the clues to which to open, which then mounted as e.g. /media/usb-0x0402-0x5621:0:0:0p5 (in the urlbar) seemed perfectly accessible in X. What causes those long mountpoint names while the Konq "my computer" content window shows them all as sdbx? Is there some way to force the automounter's mount points to be something simple like /mnt/sdbx? What is the name of the automounter? Why didn't I get a popup window for every partition on the device (33 gross total, minus sdb4)? I know that ATA HD have a generous 63 partition limit, while SCSI is limited to 15. Why the lower limit for SCSI, and why is USB treated as though SCSI? Is there some way to access all partitions in an ATA HD like mine while connected as USB? Konq shows all the usb/scsi partitions as unmounted, but 'mount' shows all mounted except any I explictly unmounted via the command line. How in X do I actually make sure all are unmounted so that disconnecting the device is safe? How do I access these partitions without X running? IOW, when I plug in the disk, what mounts them, and how do I unmount them to remove the device? Surely running umount for each and every partition must not be the only way? Man for mount and for fstab do not list a fstype of subfs, which is what 'mount' shows for the usb partitions. What is type subfs? Why wasn't I allowed to choose which popup window I want from the KDE taskbar (focus any but the last opened popup)? What doc should I be looking for that does or should explain these things? -- "He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die." John 11:25 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/