Hmm, a 4096 and a ST251 are exactly the drives I'm using that causes so many disk errors with uport unix. It seems that the disk driver could at least recal the drive and try again before failing. The whole thing does make the system very unreliable. -- Jon Zeeff Branch Technology, uunet!umix!b-tech!zeeff zeeff%b-tech.uucp at umix.cc.umich.edu