One other comment that might be relevant. I have an SATA drive connected via USB that gets mounted automatically by LABEL. So, mounting by LABEL *does* work, just not with that ata drive. -- "...the capitalist system...of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, [is] an essential condition of the very survival of mankind." -- Friedrich Hayek Rick Pasotto rick@niof.net http://www.niof.net