The following patch is a merge of the most recent EVMS from IBM and the most recent XFS release against kernel 2.4.16 It appears to work here (Toshiba laptop) but it did require a rebuild of the PCMCIA utils after installing... This is a combination of the XFS kernel patch, the EVMS 2.4 generic patch, and the EVMS 2.4.16 specific patch. Ron Gage - Saginaw, Michigan