Thanks for the advice. The External HD is still not showing up in the device manager. It is an old (old by computer standards) MicroTek 500M external drive. I am using an adaptec SCSI card. (I'm writing from work so I don't have all the details). The external drive is terminated. The SCSI ID is 4 or 5. The terminator was NOT from the manufacturer, but one I picked up locally. I have yet to change the cables too. Thanks Marshall - Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 23:55:30 +1000 From: Ultra <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: SCI and IDE "Fortescue, Marshall" wrote: > I've tried the plug and play approach and let > Windows find the drive and install what is needed. This doesn't do > anything. I've written the HD company for drivers that may be needed and > they claim all that is needed is to reformat the drive and start using. > > Can you have IDE and SCSI devices at the same time? Is there a trick to > installing a SCSI card that I needed to do? SCSI devices need termination properly. You may need a terminator on your external drive, you should get the termination info from the HD company. Please also check the drive's SCSI ID, the SCSI card should take 7, the drive cannot use same number. Jun Qian - Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org