> Ok, then try to use VFAT and see whether it works instead of ntfs. It > ntfs worked for me somehow. Every Zip disk I've seen in the past (it's been some years now) used FAT as the default filesystem, but you can reformat it with a different filesystem if you like. In fact, if you never plan to use the disks in a Windows machine, you can reformat them with ext2: mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda4 cheers, Robert