William Lindley wrote: > You might try using brand-new formatted disks. Be sure if you put a > floppy into a Windows box that you write-protect it, since Windows writes > on a disk even if you only do a directory! (It's updating the "Last > Access Time." Rah.) Thus merely reading a disk on someone else's machine > with a misaligned drive can trash the disk. what, no -noatime option?? heh -- jkenner @ mindspring . com__ I Support Linux: _> _ _ |_ _ _ _| Working Together To <__(_||_)| )| `(_|(_)(_| To Build A Better Future. |