Can't you, in therory at least, format or mount a scsi hd using WinUAE or AmigaForever ?? I used to have two very slow old scsi hd's connected to my fast pc, formatted on pc, but just wanna say that a slow scs hd on a pc is no problem. A slow ide hd on the other hand is ... but I have no experience with Amiga hd's on pc, unless I use Amithlon but then I have no access to pc hd's, at least I don't know how ...