If there is no media in the drive when you boot; the get capacity command will fail; so will the scan for partitions. Check the zip drive howto; they might have modified the ziptools to work with ide-floppy support. On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 03:09:47PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all. ... -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au