Marcus,

I'm going to have to see which ones might apply to me.

I have a weird problem with my external USB DVD drive.

The drive is always recognized upon bootup, or so it seems. I see the Mad Dog usb-storage message as the drive is found upon bootup and Knoppix always sees the usb entry where the drive is connected to the usb port.

I may use it a dozen times or more, than all of a sudden I will get a message to this effect:

"Wrong Medium. Make sure disk is inserted in drive correctly."

Then I'll have to fiddle with it. Then it works for a while then it eventually happens again. I really can't tell you if it starts working again is because it's something I've done or it just decides to start working again.

Strange huh?

I thought if it's a symlinks problem, wouldn't the drive just plain not work?

But it USUALLY does.

I do a "Modprobe usb-storage" and never get an error message.

and a general DMESG after boot up and don't see anything amiss.

sakiZ