Well, I reformatted the drives, and swapped them (now the older, smaller drive is the slave and the larger, newer drive is the master). I couldn't figure out how to un-tar Midnight Commander on the hard disk, the tar command always locked when I tried to run it, so I still don't know if the drive that failed is having hardware trouble or not. Any suggestions on how to surface-test that drive without erasing it?

Good news is that I was just now able to upload 6+ gigs in a single shot without any problems. Niiiice.

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Tony Fabris