Hello, For what it's worth I use SuSE at home and have the same problem. I've been playing around with Mandrake 10 recently and that has the floppy drive mounted as soon as the desktop is up and running, even if there is no disk in. If you swap disks over, you just click 'Reload' on the file manager (Konqueror in my case) and it reads the new disk with no problem. Pretty much like W*****s. Any SuSE developers reading this? Regards, Phil Thane - Support Manager, TechSoft UK Ltd. -----Original Message----- From: adrian.wells [mailto:adrian.wells@sidcot.org.uk] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 12:35 PM To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Mounted Floppies V9.0 Hi, Is it possible to have a floppy unmount automatically after any windows browsing it have been closed? Changing for a different disk while the current one is mounted (or replacing the same disk with revised data) causes it to get into a tizzy; and the only remedy it to log out/in again as it does not refresh the drive except when mounting or saving to a (correctly) mounted disk. Am I right in assuming that the FD is only written to when it is unmounted? I don't understand why FD are mounted in this way if the medium can't be mechanically locked al a MAC. It means that I have to think about the mundane. - I thought that was the computers job! :-) If not, is their an alternative floppy driver/management that can be used? (dare I say?) al a Windows? As a mater of interest, does anyone know why this paradigm was used? Kind regards Adrian Wells -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com