Thanks for the input NightFrost, but I am the only user of the computer and make it easier for me to mount and umount with no password issues. Never dealt with a Superfloppy setup, might read up on it sometime and try. As far as your question I don't know the answer to it. Never seen that before, but a guess could be the kernel, outdated hotplug, some issue with fam or sgi-fam, could be an issue with kudzu, I don't run kudzu to many bugs with laptops.

What distro are you using?
Kernel Version?

Well got to go, getting slammed with about 2 feet of snow tonight.
Brian1

thanks for the suggestions. I'm running gentoo, kernel 2.6.9 (con kolivas-patches). I don't use kudzu either.

I don't know what fam/sgi-fam are, gonna look it up.

It's not really a problem though; it's just one of those annoying things since I don't know the reason for the strange behaviour

sounds nasty; whereabouts are you? There should be a whole lot of snow here too (south of Sweden), but my taskbar is telling me +5 centigrades. At this time of year, the reason for that can only be global warming :-?

Actually I am in South Central Indiana, US. Got 10 inches this morning and can expect another 12 inches tonight. This is not normal for this area. Average is about 3 inches at a time. Last blizzard was in 1978 I believe. Got slammed with 3 feet and snowdrifts 6 feet tall. Was about 8 years old then. Lots of fun as a kid but no so much as an adult today. Glad I have a snow blower.

sgi_fam is a tool that updates the gui portion of the file manager as things change from redhat 9. Mostly famialar with KDE with this. I ended up stopping those services. Stuff still works fine. But I have not studied my current setup which is fc3. I think it uses something called gaim for updates now instead of fam_sig.

Kernels can be very funny. fc2 installed 2.6.7 something and my mp3 / sdcard reader was recognised. Upgraded to 2.6.9 and the mp3 was not recognised. But using 2.6.10-rc2 and it works fine. Used to have problems like this back int 2.4 kernels and hotplug. System would lock up. USB can just be flakey from kernel version to kernel version.

Also I was wrong in my fstab on the umask part. Corrected it and now works fine. I usually read from most cards but never do much writing to them. Umask, chmod, chown, chgrp plus this minis that can just get confusing unless you use daily. Thanks for the help there.

Keep warm Nightfrost.

Brian1