I am about to buy an IDE CDRW drive and a second hard drive for a 266 megahertz Dell computer that has two extra IDE connectors. I know there are a lot of good drives out there these days so I will turn the question on its head. Are there any particular CDRW drives to stay away from when used under Linux? I am asking this list because I will need to use command-line utilities. If my understanding serves me correctly, the IDE controllers in this system should see the new drives after they are connected without having to do any BIOS setup. I don't plan on trying to boot off the new drives, just use them when the system is up and running. Thank you for any suggestions you might have or issues I haven't thought of that you might raise. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group