I have seen several problems mentioned re; these drives recently. I just bought a Lexar 256MB device from Comp-USA ($39. no rebate hassle). when I asked about linux compatibility, I received some vague answer that I converted to "not all usb flash drives are the same. there is not a standard. they all work with windows, but some might not work with linux." the person who knew the most agreed. he suggested that I check the suse compatibility site. i did, not there, but I googled a message from a suse 8.2 user in England that was sucessful. I opened the package based upon the message, installed in in my xp home machine. copied some files, took it to my suse 8.2 office machine, read the files, including from a dosemu box, wrote some back from dosemu, and they read ok on the xp machine. When I plugged it in, the icon appeared, and my fstab was modified. Hope this help. John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net