Alex, I had sent a mail a couple of days ago as to how to write .fdi files, with a couple of sample files. It looks like you can ask hal to mount it right, since there seems to be no problem with detecting the drive in the first place. /etc/hal/fdi/ is where your fdi file should go. I am attaching a sample which I use for my ipod, and another which i use for my harddrive to this mail. Hope it is helpful in some way... Carthik. <div>On 9/17/05, Sean Sieger <<a href="mailto:sean.sieger@gmail.com">sean.sieger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Alex Marten <<a href="mailto:alex.marten@gmail.com">alex.marten@gmail.com</a>> writes: A quick google of the problem and it seems that many others have had this sort of problem under linux. You can try to mount the stick via the command line with: sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 MOUNTPOINT But this probably will not work if Ubuntu cannot mount it automatically. (Subsite in the directory to mount it to for MOUNTPOINT) It seems that a far amount of people have had luck solving the problem by reformating the drive. To do this: sudo mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1 Sorry I can not be of more help. Are you kidding? thank you for your help, Alex. I think one of the problems is the device is named sda instead of sda1. -- Sean Sieger -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Ph.D. Candidate University of Central Florida Homepage: <a href="http://carthik.net">http://carthik.net</a>