Ya know, I thought about doing this. Then I chickened out. Okay, I'm going to do it. And I shall report back. Ta all, L >Little late picking up this on this digest. > >Ironically a buddy called last week with the identical problem. On a >1.2G Mirror. We worked through everything we could think of over the >phone. Restarted several times. Changed cables, etc. Nothing. > >So the next day he takes all his equipment to the Apple store, >explains the problem, plugs the system in and IT WORKS! > >The store tried a number of tests on the machine but nothing showed up. > >I told him if it ever occurs again to turn the machine off. Wait >five minutes. Then give it a knock on its side. I hope he never has >to do this but it appears that drive to the Apple store did the >trick.