I have a g4 450 dual running 10.3.9. I have two drives with 2 and 3 partitions on them. Drive number 2 is 3 months old. I installed a "Creative I/O" 1394 + usb 2.0 combo card to replace my non-functioning firewire ports and add usb 2.0 to my machine. The machine wouldn't sleep, but all else functioned fine. Now 1 partitions on each drive isn't appearing on my desktop. I see them in disk utility but they are grayed out and I can't repair them. I get "Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)". I removed the PCI card and still have the same problem. I had almost this exact same problem with another drive 3 months ago (before the card). I am thinking that it was the pci card but now I'm wondering if it could be something else? Help is greatly appreciated this machine is my workhorse. Thanks, Gregg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 933 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/attachments/20060403/b2a41477/attachment.bin