Anne Wilson wrote: > OK - trying to get my head around this. So I'd need to prepare the disk(s) > using fdisk, after which kudzu would detect them and load the relevant > module, just leaving the creation of mount points to do? I want to use them > for long-term storage. > Kudzu should find the disk when you add it. You can not run fdisk on the disk(s) if the SATA module does not get loaded. I am not sure what happens when you reboot after partitioning the disks - it would be interesting to see if the partitions would get auto-mounted off of /media if you do not have entries for them in fstab. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!