On Saturday 10 November 2001 10:40 pm, you wrote: > I'll try to answer all your questions as best I can. I had a USB Zip 250 and Mandrake 8.1 and it responded with pretty much exactly the same errors. Although I have since removed it from my system, you can find a fair amount of info and discussion concerning this problem on the Mandrake User board under "Hardware". Since implementing devfs many people experience problems with USB devices. I previously ran Mandrake 8.0 with "supermount" and had no problems with my USB devices. There is a devfs writeup on the Mandrake Forum page. This info should be pertinent regardless of the distro you using. Devfs provides another method of supplying the character and block special devices that form the /dev directory. This is a kernel space device manager. There is also a user space portion called devfsd for user overrides. Most distro's are not utilizing devfs as default. Mandrake 8.1 is the first, I think. Also, supermount is currently broken in 8.1, and by default in disabled (but should be fixed soon). Beyond that, I don't know much more... _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com