Hi OErjan,

thanks for your answer! Below the the info you asked for. That was a good idea: dmsg issues a remount parameter error. Maybe this is the problem. Do you know how to fix it?

best regards
britt

Code:
britt@Osiris:~$ dmesg
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 00:50:50 Aug  9 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Enabling device 00:07.2 (0000 -> 0001)
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:08.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfcc0, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
       :
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
       :


britt@Osiris:~$ uname -a
Linux Osiris 2.4.27 #2 SMP Mo Aug 9 00:39:37 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

britt@Osiris:~$  lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
0000:00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
0000:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)

britt@Osiris:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem  mountpoint  type  options  dump  pass
/dev/hda6  /  ext3  defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1

proc  /proc  proc  defaults  0  0
/dev/fd0  /floppy  vfat  defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
usbdevfs  /proc/bus/usb  usbdevfs  defaults  0  0
sysfs  /sys  sysfs  defaults  0  0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/dvd /dvd  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda5 none swap defaults 0 0

root@Osiris:~# fdisk -l

Platte /dev/hda: 18.1 GByte, 18141806592 Byte
240 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 2343 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 15120 * 512 = 7741440 Bytes

    Gerät Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1          73      551848+  a0  IBM Thinkpad hibernation
/dev/hda2              74         350     2094120    6  FAT16
/dev/hda3             351         764     3129840   16  Verst. FAT16
/dev/hda4   *         765        2343    11937240    5  Erweiterte
/dev/hda5             765         797      249448+  82  Linux Swap
/dev/hda6   *         798        2343    11687728+  83  Linux
root@Osiris:~#