> > Hardware problem? Dunno... The disk I got actually had what looked like some partitions on it, but I couldn't tell what kind, nor did I save the strange warning or error messages that I got when I tried to list them (bad andy!). I did manage to delete all 4, and then make one big one. However, I didn't use the option to "make one big partition /dev/sdX", but rather made /dev/sdd1: Disk /dev/sdd: 606 cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 0+ 605 606- 620528 83 Linux /dev/sdd2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sdd3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sdd4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty Andy