I have a MPD external drive enclosure and roughly every 9 out of 10 boots with this device plugged in causes a panic...... It does it on both my laptop and my desktop, when running the firewire interface.... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Wildermoth BEng(ME) MPhil Lecturer / PhD Student School of Microelectronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Info. Tech. Ph. +61 7 3735 5063, Fax. +61 7 3735 5384 Email. B.Wildermoth@grifith.edu.au -------------------------------------------------------------------