I have a Fujitsu magneto-optical drive mounted in a box that's dual-booting Windows XP and OpenSuse 10.2. The drive is unpartitioned. For a long time it worked perfectly, but at some point since the 10.2 installation all the files on the disk in the drive disappeared -- under Linux. They are still visible under Windows, however. The drive is formatted as FAT32 (Windows) or vfat (Linux). As far as I can ascertain, FAT32 and vfat are just two names for the same thing. I tried adding a file to the drive under Linux -- and that worked. The added file was even visible under Windows. But nothing I tried -- including a reformat of the drive -- made the files added under Windows visible under Linux. I tried reformatting under Linux with mkfs -t vfat -I /dev/sda The command produced no error messages but the drive became unreadable under Linux -- but still readable under Windows. I also tried using the Yast partitioner to turn the drive into a single big partition. No luck there either -- the partitioner barfed with an error message, something about the msdos label. What the hell is going on here? I assume that whatever it is, it has to do with a software change introduced since the introduction of 10.2. Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org