Am running suse9.3 and self-built kernel 2.6.12.5 I just got a USB2->IDE adaptor and plugged it in. Didn't get recognised first time, disk and adaptor must have not been ready, replugged and it appeared as /dev/sda. Anyway, I partitioned the drive and happened to notice a sequence of errors in /var/log/messages: Sep 22 17:48:40 ip30 kernel: program parted is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO Is this problem known, or have I discovered a new bug, would it have been fixed in opensuse10? Paul