Clue #1: Everything you have learned about system administration under AIX 3/4/5 does not apply to AIX 1. Under AIX 1, there is no SMIT(ty), no volume groups, no logical volumes. AIX 1 is more similar to a "standard" BSD Unix implementation than it is to any other version of AIX (including AIX 2 for the RT/PC, which did at least have LVM). Tim, if you don't have the AIX 1.x documentation already, go to http://www.tavi.co.uk/ps2pages/aix.html and download all of the .ZIP files, extract the BOOK files to a convenient directory on a Windows (or OS/2) machine, and use the appropriate program to read the BOOK files (The IBM Softcopy Reader version 3 for Windows, I forget what is the latest reader program for OS/2). Then I think that you'll be using the "minidisks" command to deal with your SCSI drive. I'm not sure what the size limit will be for the "minidisks" command, I didn't use anything larger than a 2GB SCSI hard drive when I was doing my AIX 1.3 testing, and that was an external DOS-formatted drive that I was using with DOS Merge. The largest drive I used for AIX installation was a 1GB SCSI hard drive. I'll also caution you that because you don't have a Logical Volume Manager in AIX 1.3, you want to plan out your minidisk sizes carefully, because it's a pain in the butt to try to change them later. AIX 1.3 uses two partition types, one for the boot partition, the other for the data partition. Your minidisks are all stored in the data partition, one after the other, like a bunch of stacked blocks. Rick Ekblaw