Hello all. last night when I was doing some sytem maintenance I noticed that the drive containing my ftproot wasn't mounted. this was odd bc this happens automatically on startup. further examination of the disk showed that it had no partition table. this wasnt a big deal because everything on there was just mirrored so a quick wget or 2 got me all the disk's contents back. my question is what could have caused this? the disk in question is a western digital (I think) 1.2 gig from about 1996/97. the reason I'm interested about what's happening is so I can see if any of my hardware is failing such as the disk or the ide controler. -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.