hallo, thank eu so much for all who help. i run pdisk -l here is the response: partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/sda' #: 1: Apple_partiton_map 'Apple ' 63 @ 1 2: Apple_Driver43* 'Macintosh ' 54 @ 64 3: Apple_Driver43* 'Macintosh ' 74 @ 118 4: Apple_Patches 'Patch Partition ' 512 @ 192 5: Apple_HFS 'Macintosh HD ' 4192701 @ 704 (2.0G) 6: Apple_Free 'Extra ' 10 @ 4193405 Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=41934141 (2.0G) DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Drivers- 1: 21 @64, type=0x1 2: 32 @ 118, type=0xffff Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/sdb ' #: 1: Apple_partiton_map 'Apple ' 63 @ 1 2: Apple_Driver43* 'Maci_ProsoftDriver ' 54 @ 64 3: Apple_Driver43* 'Macintosh ' 74 @ 118 4: Apple_Patches 'Patch Partition ' 512 @ 192 5: Apple_HFS 'Untitled ' 261809 @ 704 (127.8M) 6: Apple_HFS 'Untitled 2 ' 3741696 @ 262513 (1.8GG) 7: Apple_Free 'Extra ' 10 @ 4004209 Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=4004218 (1.9G) DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Drivers- 1: 21 @64, type=0x1 2: 32 @ 118, type=0xffff cdrom: open falied. cdrom: open failed. pdisk: can't open file "/dev/sdc0' (no medium found) (repair filesystem) # 'blink" are u sure that is everything ok with your hardware , bacuse as i can see your hard drive is located on channel 2 but suse trying to mount partition which is on diferent drive .. ? yes, linux on channel 6 [i check] which = external 2gig i await any informations on what i may do next. danke / merci / thank you ekaterina