Hi, try a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda" if your disk is the first SCSI disk. Replace sda with the right devive name. Don't enter a partition number - just the device name. dd should overwrite the MBR and the partition table. Good luck Gernot Weber -- Gernot A. Weber http://www.tux-web.de Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it. Linus Torvalds, after a hard drive crash - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html