On Wednesday, Feb 25, 2004, at 10:27 Canada/Eastern, Cloyce D. Spradling wrote: > [...] if you ask to read or write to a disk that the OS thinks is still > present and functional, but isn't, and if the driver can't detect this > condition, you get an unkillable process. [...] Interesting. Yes, I've come across this situation before, when a disk failed, but I don't think it was the case in this particular instance. f