>Seagate has a bad reputation amoung the public but a good >one in the storage industry. Hmm, ones I dealt with didn't have a good reputation. Each time a drive failed it jammed up a scsi channel and brought the mainframe to its knees. Luckily the drives were in a cabinet set up to be hot swappable, so you could just pull the drive, the channel cleared of its congestion, the mainframe buffers emptied and performance was restored without needing to take the system down. Didn't help that it was the IRD backup/development machine either ... -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist