Hi James, when accessing a device with disabled read access the capacity is set somewhat arbitrary to 1GB. This makes it quite impossible for userspace applications to detect this as an invalid capacity. And it is inconsistent with other error conditions, where the capacity is in fact set to 0. Please apply. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH S390 & zSeries Maxfeldstraße 5 +49 911 74053 688 90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de