>on my system it shows up as /dev/sda1. have you tried that one yet? >alex. Hello, I had done some checking. The system loads up the usb-storage modules and lists the hard disk in /proc/bus/usb/devices and when I do "usbmodules /proc/bus/usb/002/001" it returns usb-storage. However, if I start hardware browser (hwbrowser) it only shows my internal hdd. Before, in RH8 it used to show up as /dev/sda. But now it seems invisible to me, though the system recognises from what I can see from the above files. Any suggestions on what to do are highly appreciated. Regards, Andrew