Skip> I'm still stumped. I have a "spare" partition into which I can Skip> install a standard distro, and I dropped back to a Mandrake 8.0 Skip> distro I downloaded a few months ago. The distro is based on the Skip> 2.4.3 kernel. After rebooting into Mandrake, I find I'm still Skip> unable to read or format the Zip drive. I also have a BSD 4.3 CD Skip> here as well, but I think it must be something obvious we are Skip> overlooking. You don't need to drop distributions to use a new kernel, you can just download it and compile it, update /etc/lilo.conf to see the new kernel images and reboot. Skip> The Mandrake passes the Zip drive off to ide-floppy and the CDRW Skip> off to ide-scsi. Skip> What's a body to do? Just stay with ide-floppy for the Zip drive? That should work just fine. Or are you set on having a totally SCSI looking system? It's hard for me to help since I don't have a Zip drive of my own to play with. John x27548