Just thought I would close this thread with a report of my success getting these uVAXen MFM drives imaged. Thanks to much good advice for list members, I have successfully imaged all drives. I don't have VMS to do a VMS netboot (sorry Allison :) ), so I ended up netbooting NetBSD from a Debian box via MOP/BOOTP/NFS onto each uVAX. Once I had NetBSD installation kernel alive, I configured the network IP and did an NFS mount back to the Debian box. After that, it was a simple matter to 'dd' the uVAX's drive to a file on the Debian, and from there to a CD for long term storage. As it turns out, all four of these vaxen had extremely minimal ULTRIX setups loaded, not VMS, which is a shame. I was hoping for a VMS setup to play with. Well, I'm in the process of getting my OpenVMS licenses, so all is not lost. Thanks everyone for their suggestions, and patiently "reminding" me that MFM drive formats aren't portable. Jared