On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 21:18 -0500, Steve Davidson wrote: Did you by chance enable broadcasts to your system console on the Alpha so that you could monitor the actual requests that the Alpha will/should (hopefully) see? This might give a clue to what is missing/wrong... (resent because I think I'm subscribed to the mailing list with a couple variants of misernet.net ....) Hi Steve, Yes I did. In fact I see the "load request" start and succeed when it grabs the ISL_SVAX_073 file - but other than that, there are no other broadcasts while logged in as SYSTEM with reply/enable set. I have found a site with jumper settings for this NEC drive, but I don't see a reference to sector size. I think I'm going to modify the "factory reserved" jumpers one at a time, thinking perhaps one of those is it. Fred