On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 09:08 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > Power supply issues can do real damage to the drives, as well. I had a pair > of 250GB drives that have hard errorred sectors thanks to a power > supply 'glitching' on me. The drives still work fine otherwise, but they > have several dozen sectors each that will never be usable. Most drive manufacturers have a diagnostic/repair utility that have a fair chance of fixing that sort of problem. Unfortunately they tend to only run under windows. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com