On Friday 22 September 2006 13:06, Bowie Bailey wrote: > The problem does sound external to the disks. Someone else suggested > the power supply. I wouldn't suspect both cables to have problems, so > that's probably not an issue. 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. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu