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Dave, The software business is changing at a dizzying pace. One way or another, the major players will find a way to make money at it. I just hope folks like us don't end up getting shortchanged later due to low purchase prices. Your experience with Adaptec is much like mine. I had avoided using their products for years because of the near-total lack of support. Lately I bought an Ultrastor 14F SCSI host adapter, but was never able to get it to work reliably with my Maxstor SCSI hard disk. I tried 3 14F's, 2 drives and 2 motherboards, all to no avail. Finally broke down and got the Adaptec 1542C, and all has worked well since installing that. I noticed that Adaptec now has a toll-free number for support (800-959-7274). Is that what you called? Unfortunately, many of the support BBS's are not run very well. All they seem to do is allow downloading a few files. That has been helpful to me sometimes, but could be much better. CI$ has become my best source of support lately, but I have NEVER seen anyone from Adaptec post a message. Too bad. They could be so much better if they chose to do it. One way or another I'm going to have to get into the image processing area. Time to visit some new forums. I did pick up a shareware program called Graphics Workshop for Windows, which says it can read PhotoCD disks. I hope to try it RSN <g> Just getting busier, -=Rob=-