To rjov :
Yes the odd numbered files only contain info, sorry for the misunderstanding ...

To tfabris:
Yes it is cool, because i HAD a cable to connect 2.5 HD -> 40 pin IDE, and now i do not need the 44 pin - 44 pin cable ...

The 4 Gig Drive is for my girlfriends' elderly Pentium 120 Notebook, that uses DriveSpace on a 850 MB HD right now, which is a pain in the b*tt ...

:-)

Nils

P.S. when talking about a backup on a FAT partition:
( If you have a SPARE HD, then of course format it to ext2, no problem, but i had a used partition of a 20gig HD that i used for backup )
The fliename-lenght of DOS ( 8.3 ) in no problem for the music files, the only things that give trouble are:

-1- the file "playlists" will be named "playlist", so after copying back you have to rename it, EASY

-2- you have to change backe the chmod of all files to rw-r--r-- , because Linux sees FAT32 Files as rwxrwxrwx ...
( I don't know if this is really neccesary ( but doubt that ), but to go safe you should do that ) EASY