While the drive is not strictly on-topic, the contents are - I have a 30GB Quantum drive that did not survive the rigors of the APO mail system. I have to admit I was in a bit of a hurry on my way out of Pole and while virtually all of my stuff survived travelling 12,000 miles in the mail system, something must have shifted in my box of hard drives and some of the components on the bottom of the drive are damaged and missing. Sufficient packing materials are hard to come by at the Pole, and I was counting on double-boxing and pink bubble wrap to be enough - it obviously wasn't. I think a neighboring drive must have shifted and rubbed on the circuit board of this one, causing a patch of visible component damage. The drive itself does spin up, and gives the expected pattern of blinks on its lone LED, but the machine does not see it. Given that there are 3 missing resistors of a size smaller than an 805 package (don't know the names of the really wee parts) and a few bent pins on a nearby 104(?) pin 0.5mm pitch QFP, the lack of responsiveness doesn't really surprise me. If anyone on the list happens to have an unhappy 30GB Quantum drive, I'd be interested in its board. The P/N on the lid sticker is an LM30A011. Worst case, if I can find another similar drive and a scan of the area of the board near the LED on an intact drive of the same model, I can probably harvest a replacement chip and some SMT resistors and transplant them. The damaged chip in question is badged Lucent/Quantum, P/N "MS24C13 34". There's no horrible noises from the HDA - typical spin-up/spin-down noises, so I think there may be a chance to get at this drive, if I can repair/replace the board. Yes, I know that drives are cheap these days - I would just like to get at what's on this one. Naturally, the other drives in the box, including the blank 18GB workstation drives, are fine... only my boot drive gets dinged. :-/ Thanks, -ethan