Update: I restarted the machine, and now I have 3 new devices sg1 sdb sdb1 I assume I need to mound sdb1 ? But what to put in fstab ? I assume that it's 'hotplug' that did it's magic ? Isn't there a way to run hotplug without having to reboot ? Rebooting the machine just to detect a USB device is not fun... :-/ Vince