It's likely to be cosmetic, but I just found that if I do 'hdparm -I /dev/hda' It returns in the identification "aMtxro9 31306D " which should read "Maxtor 91306 D" Likewise for hdb, which returns "BI-MHDAE3-4815" instead of "IBM-DHEA-38451" 'cat /proc/ide/hd[ab]/model' returns the correct strings, though. -W- No man is an island if he's on at least one mailing list. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.