This is just sort of a FYI message, I've already solved my problem. It started off easy enough, I needed to use one of my Q-Bus VAXen, and was planning on using the big old MV2. Turns out one of it's power supplies is apparently dead :^( Haven't really had time to look into that. No problem says I, I'll just throw one of the disks in my VAXstation II/RC. The disk freaked out and made some really alarming noises. Turns out the RQDX3 is apparently bad. I replaced it, and then it told me the drive was off line. I proceeded to give the system a good checkup, and couldn't find anything wrong, finally I pulled the other HD out of the MV2. It worked just fine. The answer to the problem appears to be that the first HD had been initialized on a Emulex controller which is the primary controller in my MV2, the second one was initialized on a RQDX3 (the secondary controller in the MV2). Both had bootable VMS installs on them, unfortunatly the one I needed was the first, but I've now got that taken care of. Just an interesting and educational problem I thought I'd share. Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | For Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | see http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ | | For the collecting of Classic Computers with info on them. | | see http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/museum.html |