Hi, I have an HP NC6000 laptop which I recently took the plunge and totally erased Windows from. I have run dual boot on this sytem before and had everything running very well, however now it appears my Pioneer DVR-108 DVD Writer which I have in a third party USB/Firewire enclosure has stopped working. I have confirmed the unit still runs perfectly on Windows. My suspicion is that something in Suse's YOU (Yast Online Update) has broken something somewhere, but only being a moderate linux user I don't know where to start to fault find this. I have looked in the boot logs and originally found some message about disconnect on dev/sda however even that is not coming up now. Other hardware detection is working fine. So where do I start to fault find this?

Thanks!

Are you using USB or firewire? Are the correct modules loading?

Both, either one does not work. It did work before which is what is confusing me. Anyway, I had no replies so I tried updating the kernel and stuffed the bootloader somehow so rebuilt it (I hate rebuilding to fix things it is soooo wrong). Other USB devices were working OK, but I'd still like to know where I would go to fault find a specific device as it may still not work (I haven't tried it yet) and it would be good to know. I beileve the module must have been loaded cause it was before which I would assume was built into the kernel?

Thanks,

M