Brian Rademacher <rad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > under a high load (in this case, just trying to format the drives), they go offline and never > come back... > I tested both drives for errors on a different system and they are fine... Just out of curiousity, have you tried them on the Abit mobo in question but with a different *power supply*? I had a rash of drive errors a while back (I have 6 hard drives + dvd-r in the system), and it turned out the power supply was dying; the drives surprisngly turned out to be the most sensitive components in the system to voltage fluctuations. --wes