Dear All, I have using CentOS 4.4 and My PC USB Drive is detected and but the device "/dev/sda1" is not initialized and i have executed the dmesg command and I am getting the following messages usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using address 2 SCSI subsystem initialized Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: JetFlash Model: TS1GJFV30 Rev: 8.07 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 USB Mass Storage device found at 2 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. SCSI device sda: 1986558 512-byte hdwr sectors (1017 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 1986558 512-byte hdwr sectors (1017 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 and i have tried in windows xp service pack 2 system USB Drive is detected but can not opened and i am getting the following message please insert disk in drive I am not sure why this is happening. Can some one throw light on this. Regards -S.Balaji