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Khalid, I hope I pronounced that right. I too noticed the reserved of zero in the mountlist and changed it to 2 hoping that that was the problem. Unfortunatly, it didnt change the problem. The number of surfaces is supposed to be equal to the number of heads on the drive. Your miniscribe probably has 6 heads, the ST251 has 6 but according to the segate manual the ST251N has only 4. So, I used 4. The st251N has 820 cyls according to the manual but mine would only format to 807. I am told that because the drive is a scsi drive, the scsi controller reserves some of the cyls for its own use and that I cant get at all of them, so not being able to access beyond 807 on the format would maybe make sense. So I preped the drive saying that it had 807 and it formatted fine. I do appreceiate your responding. Did you say you had 2 A2000's ? I had a dickens of a time just getting one. The dealers around here allways get there orders filled about 2 years after everybody else in the country it seems. Thanks again. Paul