OK, I've got a bit more info ... In logical order ... The memory stick is easily read by a dell laptop and the files copied etc. (The files in question were written to the stick by an apple laptop.) Suse machine is now putting another icon up 'floppy' - i don't know what produced this, as the floppy drive on the machine has never been used. When I click to open it, ..dev/sda comes up in the location box, then a popup window says the process has died! I get the same result whether or not the memory stick is in the USB port, but no light or action on the floppy drive, even with a disk in it! I haven't tried the live mounting thing yet ... Regards RLB ======================================== Message Received: Jan 02 2006, 05:06 PM From: "Colin McKinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "SLUG-list" <scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk> Cc: Subject: Re: [Scottish] USB memory sticks and SuSE 9.3 Hi Robert, On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:54, Robert Barbour wrote: > The only indication I can find that the USB port is detected is when I go > into system information and it tells me the name of the memory stick - > presumably this is the 'volume label' allocated by the friend who provided > the stick. > So the physical hardware seems to be working OK. (on my SuSE 10 box, and IIRC SuSE 9.1, I can hot plug USB memory cards - the system automaticaly mounts them). What does mount show? What happens when you try to manually mount the disk (typically it will be mapped to the first free SCSI device - e.g. /dev/sda)? Try watching /var/log/messages while you plug it in (open a konsole window and type in su (your root password) tail -f /var/log/messages Can you access the disk from a different machine / a different operating system? Since your machine is detecting the disk, this rather suggests that it doesn't like the format of the disk (IIRC this came up on the list about a year ago - the poster resolved the problem by reformatting as a DOS disk). HTH C.
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