On 1/9/06 3:15 AM, "Stroller" <macmonster at myrealbox.com> wrote: > I think the reason the knackered drive is causing the good one to be > unrecognised is probably something like it causing additional &/or > extraneous data to be spewed down the EIDE bus. Thanks for your quick response. I've heard of the DeskStar's alternate appellation (Deathstar). This is the first one of perhaps half a dozen I've used that's failed, if indeed that's the problem. Jim Robertson --