Hi Perry,
I don't know my way around suse very well, but here's a few ideas.
If you type dmesg in a terminal, you'll get the log showing you whether or not the drive was recognised. It'll show up with some vendor information, and a message about being attached to /dev/sda. That's SCSI disk a, because USB drives (I suppose you're not actually using a genuine SCSI IOMEGA drive?) pretend they are SCSI ones for the purposes of the kernel.
You'll be wanting to mount the first partition of the drive, which should show up as /dev/sda1 when there's a partitioned disk there. So you could take a look at the partition table. fdisk -l (lower-case ell) should do that for you if memory serves (check out man fdisk as root). If it looks like the first partition is something reasonable, again as root, you could try mounting it like this:
Code:
cd /tmp
mkdir iomtest
mount -t vfat -o ro /dev/sda1 iomtest
(assuming you've got a Microsoft-type filesystem on it, change vfat to whatever as appropriate if not). That'll try to mount it read-only (-o ro) just in case. If, after that, you can cd into iomtest or just ls iomtest and see what you expect, then something is funny with your automounter, or udev, or pmount, and pound to a penny that you'll need to get some advice from a suse user.
If it's any consolation, I'm getting a lot of gyp from a PVR I bought recently: can't mount it at all on my Linux box, though my Mac laptop mounts it fine
I think I need to learn a lot more about all this udev/hotplug/pmount stuff.
Good luck, hope that'll at least get you your files back!
Nick/.
PS: what have you got in /etc/fstab?
