Thanks for the welcome. And thanks for the link! One problem--does the powermac g4 one cover Sawtooths? If I remember the models correct, the Digital Audio is the earliest model listed--and that's after my sawtooth.

I suppose it is possible that I got the perfect storm, but seems unlikely. I've been having a few computer problems and my only working comps right now are a Pismo, a couple indigo g3 imacs and a powermac 5400. Yeah, it's amazing the old computers are still alive whilst my g4 tower and ibook g4 aren't....

So I could probably test the PATA drives, but I don't have any enclosures, unless I break into the external drives. No, I don't have diskwarrior yet. I might have to get it, alas.

I'll have to try to check the rest of that out once I get home. Thanks for the quick reply, by the way!