Boy, this is getting a little frustrating... I've tried the following two scripts, compiled them, saved both as applications and selected them in the Startup Items in the Accounts pref pane. The first is the one that worked (and still continues to work) in 10.3.6. Perhaps someone else, who runs Tiger and has more than one drive, could give it a test...? This from 10.3.6: tell application "Finder" eject disk "Spare" end tell ---------------- try tell application "Finder" to eject "Spare" end try -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20050707/6dae5658/attachment.html