Well, not having received any advice with part 2, let me continue with part 3. I completely removed the initial install and did a full new install. This solved some of the problems and an on line update one additional. To explain: The new install now displays 10 drives upon boot which are as follows in order of presentation: CD Recorder (/dev/dvdrecorder) CD-ROM (/dev/cdrom) CD-ROM (/dev/cdrom11) DVD (/dev/dvd) floppy (/dev/fd0) floppy (/dev/sdb) [ an icon that points to the ATAPI Zip 250 // non-functional ] Hard Disk (/dev/sdc4) [ an icon pointing to ???? ] Hard Disk (/dev/sda1) SuSE 9.2 Hard Disk (/dev/sda2) SuSE 9.2 Hard Disk (/dev/sdb4) [ an icon pointing to the unmounted USB Zip 250 ] All 4 CD/DVD devices, the real floppy, and the 9.2 drives work as expected. The USB Zip drive also functions but interestingly the icon changes to that for a USB drive when a disk is inserted, and disappears when the disk is removed. I also have a 4 port USB hub attached and all devices connected to it work fine. Neither the "floppy" /dev/sdb nor the "hard disk" /dev/sdc4 will function at all and I can't determine to what the /dev/sdc4 points. I still am unable to find the 160GB EIDE drive even though SuSE Plugger knows it is present and in fact everything you could possibly want to know about it. Of interest are several things. (1) Immediately after the install some of the device icons would go away when you clicked on them [ /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc4, and occasionally /dev/sdb4 if the device was empty ] but after several reboots this tendency went away and they are now "permanently" in place in the My Computer file. This seems like off behavior. (2) The system would not "read" the correct time, even though it was being read off the NIST clock in Gaithersburg, MD, until I did an update via you over the weekend; now it works as advertised. (3) No matter what I do, I can't read that 160 GB drive. So again, any and all suggestions / advice would be greatly appreciated! dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe