What are your system logs saying ? What is the exact command you are doing to do the mount ? When you plug a USB device in, it will generate several connect messages. Looking at them might help you decipher what is going on. Also, you might consider updating to FC3 as I suspect its support of USB devices is better than that in FC3. On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 13:43 -0500, Steven Pasternak wrote: > I use FC2 kernel 2.6.10-1.9_FC2. Whenever I plug my sandisk pen drive in, the > light turns on and the song I play skips, but sda1 is STILL not a valid block > device. I just re-formatted it a ext3 with no luck. WHAT IS WRONG????????? > -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.