Dear SuSE list users, I have just solved my problem dealing with mounting removable media! I had some hints from isupport@suse.de and some of you here on the list. Thanks!! Here is a look at the problem and solution. Under SuSE 6.3 there were some Support Database Articles that tell users of removable media such as SCSI ZIP drives (Iomega) how to mount their cartridges. The article pointed out that these DOS or M$ formatted carts have partitions 1 thru 4. So it tells the user to create a fstab entry that looks like the line below: /dev/sdb4 /rwmo auto noauto,user 0 0 ^ then to mkdir /rwmo and then to issue: linux# mount /rwmo to complete mounting the removable carts. And here is the BUG: Sometime between 6.3 and 7.1 SuSE, something changed!! Now the user MUST NOT set the fstab entry for the removable drive to a partition # . the entry must be set to /dev/sdb (SCSI) or /dev/hda (IDE) only. once the fstab entries are correct, the user can mount both SCSI MO carts and LS-120 'super floppies' with out trouble. I'm sure that SCSI ZIP drives will work this way as well, but I don't have one to test. Another observation: I have installed 7.1 several times now on three different machines using YAST 1 & 2. But the installs did not create fstab entries or KDE device icons for any of the removable media drives; either LS-120 'super floppies' or SCSI r/w Magneto Optical cartridges; even tho I made sure that there was media in the drives during each install. Michael??? Is this an oversight? Cool observations: When I installed SuSE 7.1 on a machine that had NT4 on it, YAST2 made the correct fstab entries and KDE device icons for all of the FAT and NTFS drive letters of the NT4 partitions. On that same install there was a 7 CD SCSI 'Changer" that can hold 7 different CDs and mount any one CD. The CDs are SCSI LUNs "logical unit numbers". Well I was pleasantly surprised to see that YAST2 had created fstab entries and KDE device icons for each CD (lun)!! Great work SuSE!! .................... Pete VC -- =============================== Peter B.Van Campen Peter_B@vancampen.org =============================== -- <<Gnu is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX>>