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Erik, Well, I have done as you suggested, and the symptoms have changed. Let me echo what I did to make sure I understood you. I remapped my drives so the 60 meg HD is #4, the 212 meg HD is #5, and the cartridge drive is #6. I left the cartridge drive off the SCSI cable, booted the system, went to HDToolbox, and saved the changes to the hard drives. Then I powered down, plugged in the cart drive, rebooted, and saved changes to the cart drive _only_. If I got what you were saying, that should have left #5's RDB thinking it was the last drive in the chain. As I said, the symptoms changed. Before, you couldn't boot without a cart in the drive. Now, from a power on the system hangs with the cart access light lit steady; Kickstart doesn't even get loaded (I have one of the old developer machines with Super Kickstart on the hard drive instead of in ROM.) But if I then reboot with Control-Amiga-Amiga, it comes up normally. Sadly, since this machine has to restart unattended, this won't quite get me where I'm going. But it is better, and I thank you for that. Any other suggestions would be welcomed. Rick