Hi I am currently trying to add a second drive to my Iyonix I have tried to drives in the machine so far :- Samsung SP1203N 120GB Seagate ST340810a 40GB I have tried connecting both drives in the follow ways:- The currently installed disc is set to be a master so I have tried installing either of these discs as slaves off of the same ribbon connector. I have also tried disconnecting the DVD RW with is on the other ribbon cable and attaching the drives as masters but each time I get the same result, the Iyonix boots and reads OK off the original disc and gets to the Iyonix RISC OS5 startup banner and the hour glass just shows. I have tried leaving the machine in this state for quite a while to see if it times out but no luck so far. Both drives were installed in a Win XP machine if this makes any difference. It would just have been handy to have a backup of the system local to the Iyonix in case of disaster, has anyone got any ideas. I assume that the detection system for drives is automatic on the Iyonix? Regards -- Terry --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support