Thanks to the patient folks who walked me through getting my Maxtor firewire hard drive up and running with 8.0 pro. I need to do : Insmod ieee1394 Insmod ohci1394 Insmod sbp2 At the command line, then mount /sdb1 (which I've set up in /etc/fstab). My question, and pardon my newbiness, but how can I get this to "stick" which each reboot? I tried modifying boot.local but I get a hard freeze with these commands in there (have to do a complete reset). Am I doing this too early or too late, should I be putting this somewhere else? And how exactly does insmod differ from modprobe? Thanks Sean \\\|/// \\ - - // ( @ @ ) ----o00o-(_)-o00o------------------ Sean McGrath, RN seanmcgpa@comcrap.net SeanMcGPA AIM/MSN Nurses Heal the World! +++ath0 NO CARRIER