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I'm guessing it might be showing up as a different usb device now.  Try 
the following:

fdisk -l /dev/sda
fdisk -l /dev/sdb
.
.
fdisk -l /dev/sdz

Or until you're satisified. :)

> 
> And then I think I am back to a question that was asked earlier
> this week.  How do I make the OS consistently identify this drive
> as sdc1 rather than sd?1, which it is doing now, depending on
> how many other USB "storage devices" have been plugged in before
> it?
> I have this line ready to activate in /etc/fstab:
> 
>     #/dev/sdc1  /mnt/backup  ext3 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
> 
> And if that isn't correct I would really appreciate a correction
> _before_ I screw something up any further.

Has nothing to do with your entry in fstab, unfortunately.  You're going 
to have to look at either hotplug or udev, depending on your kernel. 
Personally, I've found nothing but frustration when trying to get this 
to work on older kernels.  On SuSE 9.2 it just works.  Sweet.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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