Sometime around 3am this morning, the classiccmp server tossed cookies. Not sure exactly what happend, I tried powering it off and back on remotely - no joy. So, this afternoon (sorry, but I was busy gutting (refurbing) another HP 7906 drive and for once I decided my collection comes first!). I went down to the datacenter and hooked up a console. Got this wonderful message: "HDD S.M.A.R.T. monitoring has determined that a hard drive failure is imminent. Back up your data immediately. Press F1 to continue" *sigh* So I hit F1, made sure it came back up. All disks were present and accounted for. Tonight I'm sending copies of the filesystems over to a different server... just in case. Not sure how much I trust S.M.A.R.T., so I may let it ride for a while and just keep a closer eye on it. We'll see. On the bright side, my 2nd 7906 is now mechanically sound, servo/positioning tested ok too. On to the diags tomorrow for some read/write tests. What *IS* it with me and hard drives these days anyways? If it's not vintage ones, it's modern ones! Also I thought I'd try throwing this hook out - Does anyone have any 7906 drives that they are sure are junk and not worth keeping? If so, I would like to scavenge them for a spare set of cards from the card cage, the PMR board, and all the heads - especially the servo head. But only if it's pretty certain the drive isn't worth keeping and refurbing. Regards, Jay West