I copied a few files to a usb floppy drive and the drive continued to make noises and flash it lights. The ps command showed the following: /sbin/submountd /dev/sdb /media/floppy1 floppyfss 4000001e uid=1000,gid=100 This was a different PID each time I looked. Removing and reinserting the floppy stopped the weirdness. Perhaps this is my fault: I changed fstab to look like this (I added "user"): /dev/sdb /media/floppy1 subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync,user 0 0 I had to do that or I couldn't use the floppy as a regular user. When I clicked on the drive's icon I got an error message saying only root could mount it. I think I am misunderstanding how to use floppies with the new subfs filesystem. I looked at the index for both the User Guide and the Administration Guide and found no entry for either floppy ue subfs. Can anyone explain this to me? -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert@paulsenonline.net