Hi Jay, thanks for your reply! On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Jay Christnach wrote: I had hoped for a relatively short answer, but if it's got to be... ;-) Well, some people here at the office meanwhile told me that they think (!= know) that the protocol is translated transparently, i.e. the bridge chip doesn't even need to know about disk size etc., so no trouble there apparently. I guess I'll just have to order things in a shop where, just in case, I can exchange the disk or enclosure. While I'm at it - what's the current status regarding hard disks (large IDE drives, i.e. >> 120GB) - which are ok, which are not? The criteria are mainly reliability, speed isn't as important for this application. Over the years, it seems about everybody had bad series of drives: - Seagate "sie geht oder sie geht nicht" - Quantum - the fireballs of 2-3GB did get broken easily - IBM can't remember the exact series that was bad - ... How about Maxtor, Samsung, Western Digital, etc. etc.? i.e. I'm perfectly willing to buy Seagate again if their current series are ok. Greetings & TIA, Eric