At 5:31 AM -0700 8/4/04, Macintosh Digital Video List wrote: >I've never had good luck with Silverlining -- I use Intech's Hard Disk >Speed Tools for all my 3rd-party drives that won't format with Apple's >own Drive Setup utility under OS 9. Thanks people for your responses. It had not occurred to me that Silverlining might be the problem but the allusion to Norton Utilities reverberates strongly here. It caused me great problems and I've avoided it like the plague for years. I'll search for the InkTech product. -- from Paul Knight (JapanEd) <www.japaned.com> 43 Burn Street, Levin, New Zealand 5500 Ph: 64 6 368 9192 Fax 64 6 368 9193 eMail: paul.knight at internet.co.nz