Preformatted Zip disks come with their partition set as the 4th partition. And yes, I have 2 SCSI hard drives and a SCSI MO drive, so my USB CF reader goes to sdd. I imagine it will become sde when my new SCSI hard drive arrives. Yes, you can repartition the Zip disks. But why would you want to when you'd have to repartition evey Zip disk you buy? Easier just to reformat them and be consistant with the partitioning. Easier to move the media between machines that way. I think if you have no SCSI devices that usb-storage will take the first scsi drive. (sda) But my laptop is in sleep mode so I can't check that. (and I don't want to dig into the USB documentation. Let the person having the troubles RTFM.) :) -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org "We can learn much more from wise words, little from wisecracks and less from wise guys." --William Arthur Ward