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"...I have a Panasonic that came with a PCMCIA SCSI card. It has an ASPI driver thant allowd me to use another CD w/o a problem, but didn't hold up to the punishment a SCSI tape unit (HP) gave it. That could be a tape drive problem or an imperfect driver problem. (Does anyone know of any software that will test an ASPI driver for functionality?) I have not...." ~~~~~~~~~~ I don't know of an ASPI compatability test, but I've always been told to use the one that comes with the card, not the device. Also, I got a tip the other day that may help you with the tape problem. If your tape drive is SCSI I (which I believe all of them still are), and your card is SCSI II (which it must be or you wouldn't get the smaller connector), your card is probably set to 10Mb/s internal xfer rate, which SCSI I devices can't handle. We were unwittingly doing this on one of our file servers, but by bumping the SCSI xfer rate down to 5Mb/s, the tape drive could handle the I/O flow & stopped crashing. It was actually the tape drive that couldn't keep up with the card. Since 5Mb/s is faster than a CD rom can move data, you won't lose any performa nce. Michael J. Verne michael_verne@vmedia.com Systems Analyst, Ventana Communications Group, Inc.