On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:23:46 -0500 "Joel Luth" <joel at luths.net> wrote: > I had a Caviar crap out on me once. (maybe that takes the jinx off you) When I was supporting some old Dell hardware about a year ago, I had two Western Digital Caviar 33XXX series (3GB) just die on me within a span of a few weeks. Both suffered a hard fault, and were not recoverable. I have a friend with the selfsame drive in her home machine, I'm urging her to replace it before it turns into a replace,recover & reload... -.bill.layer.- -.those who are talking don't know, and those who know aren't talking.- -.frogtown.- -.minnesota.- -.u.s.a.-