--- Kirby Bohling <kbohling@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello; > You don't describe your problem. Specifically, what happens > when you turn the machine on with those drives powered off? > > My guess is that you get dropped to a root repair-filesystem > shell. I have a firewire drive this used to be a problem with. > yes exactly so - sorry about the ommision Thanks for the verbose reply Mick M __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/