<It does this for each of the drives. The drives "sound good" for what i < worth. Is there some special trick to getting a Q540 to act like a RD52 < does the VS2000 have a dislike for RD52's, or (my personal suspicion) i < the drive simply dead. ok, Quantum DQ540s are RD52... no difference, as I have RD52s and guess what they also say on the outside. Also the QD540 is about as reliable a drive as you can find. VS2000 likes the following: 20mb Seagate St225 40mb Seagate ST251 31mb Quantum QD540 71mb Micropolus 1325 159mb Maxtor 2190 series Now if the drive is incorrectly jumpered it will not work. If it's been formatted on say a PC the format mode of the VS2000 may not work as expected. Meaning you have to fill in the values manually. Allison