CompuServe Messages

When you 'manually ejected' the cart, was it still spinning? Still, I doubt it's damaged – I've seen friend' force 88MB syquest's out before they've stopped spinning, with no ill effects. You mention the first time formatting was quick, but the last 2 were slower? Is this while formatting from the CLI, or using the Low Level Format in HDToolBox? Also, when formatting from the CLI, you can add the keyword 'QUICK' to do a simple reformat of the drive's directory structure (or something like that), which only takes a few seconds, compared to the long minutes required to format an entire drive. (Though I think you still need to do at least one full format the first time….) Have you tried the Find Bad Blocks option in HDToolBox? Oh well, the mystery continues…….. Erik Flom