Seriously, Have you repaired Disk Permissions? I keep running it until it has a minimum of repairs it needs to do. I recently saw a note on a person who had problems with their FW drives and it fixed that. On 9/28/03 5:20 AM, "b" <fl1pper at earthlink.net> wrote: > Thanks for the input on the modified dates. So, i guess i can rule > that out as far as why my system isn't even bothering to scan for > 'local disks' or letting FireWire operate. :=( > > ~flipper