For "fantastic" substitute "legendary." During my years as a support tech (roughly 1986 to 1994) it was an article of faith in my firm that a "bad disk" was a failed controller about two times out of three. This could be difficult to explain to end-users, who generally knew what a hard disk was, but rarely what a controller was, or even that they owned one. It was also entertaining telling an end-user that, once they had a new controller, they'd have to low-level the -- kc