It just sits there... Mocking me.... > > I surmise that I have all the wrong speeds or something drives. Admittedly > the drives are older. One is a Maxtor 5T040HD (40g) and the other is a > Western Digital Caviar 26400. Probably both are too slow. B&W has no trouble > seeing, reading and writing to these drives. Is the newer machine that much > different? > > Another new guy.. > Rich I don¹t know if the PMU is that little microswitch that I have to hold for 15 seconds, but if that is the one I did that. I did the P-ram, did the thing with the O-F and reset the NWRam, Set Defaults, then reset all. Then did the pram thing a couple more times just to be sure. Then I removed the battery and pressed the little button again to try and exorsize the demons. In the meantime, I put the good ol'40 in my b&w so I can migrate files to take the load off the (pitifully small) 12G it came with. -- It is not enough to aim, you must hit. Richard H. Blount Maj. OHMR (ret.)