ckamin,

Thanks for confirming that hde1 would seem to be the adapter. Your interesting point about media is useful. I use SD cards. There's a 16MB SD card in the adapter all the time - and the adapter is inserted all the time - I do this in part to ensure I've always got it/them with me while travelling, and as a convenient carrying place to avoid mislaying the small SD card.

If the hde1 is probably the adapter with its SD media inserted, I'll bone up on how to mount it using a 'mount' command line, because KDE isn't giving me a GUI-style 'mount' option; there's neither an icon, nor is there a 'mount' option when rightclicking on hde1 in the Konqueror 'tree' display.

Although I'm quite at ease with KDE, I haven't tried any commands in text form before.

You've given me a way forward, thanks again,

Islander