Yeah, thought I would post an update. As for the drive itself I really dont have anything important, as a matter of fact all it had was a fresh install of sys 7.1 and now the hd is refusing to work everytime. In other words whenever I shut dwn the quadra and pwr it up whether it be an hr or less, i have to tap the side of the hd to get it spinning. If not then the boot up error. So yep ill definitely be looking into options, mb the scsi to ide sounds nice. I have a mess of old 520mb and up hds laying around for old pcs and they are fine.

thanks in advance.