Hello all! I am now able to report on the very latest development. This morning, I decided to take another Western Digital Caviar Black 1 Tb disk, and install it into another Akasa enclosure of the same type. Thus, I had the same type of disk in the same type of cabinet as I had when I experienced failure to see and partition that drive. Upon attaching the drive to the USB port, I was amazed when I opened YaST, and the disk showed no problems - and with the correct size whereas the other disk in the other enclosure was listed as 2 Tb and then dropped out in many instances. This time there were no problems whatsoever in partitioning and formatting, and I am only facing the dilemma of what file system I want to format it with. Thus, we have narrowed the whole thing down to the source of error being either in the other disk or the other enclosure. The precise answer can of course be found by swapping the two disks and put the former one who failed to be partitioned into the new enclosure. Which is not a very big thing at all. I am thankful for the inputs so far, and of course for the courteous atmosphere that prevailed during the whole discussion with very few heated words. Feel free to comment, but before I swap the drives in order to find out, I would like to receive suggestions as to what file system I should choose. I originally thought to use FAT, but some of you advised against it in favor of Ext3. Personally I would like ReiserFS, but that is more difficult to read/write from/to from a Windows machine. Also, I have a MacBook Pro which to my knowledge can read neither ReiserFS nor Ext3. That would make FAT the preferred choice unless there are weighty reasons to go with something else. Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org