Hi Well, now that I've seen Scotts' reply, I realize (quite sheepishly I might add) that what's being sought is to take a disk from an sgi and slap it into a Linux box. No, I haven't done that and that's what Colin desires to do, I'm pretty sure. My apologies for the time/bandwidth wastage. Ed Hoeffner 1-271 BSBE 312 Church St. SE Mpls, MN 55455 hoeffner at dcmir.med.umn.edu 612-625-2115 612-625-2163 fax