update to suggestions

[mark soule]

    First, thanks to JABR and Jerry for the quick responses.

    second here's an update to your suggestions.

    Jerry - 
        1.  I looked at CMOS. - everything is fine, I keep a screen     
            shot and it hasn't changed.

    JABR -
        1.  I used a system disk to boot
        2.  called fdisk and found the following info
            fdisk
            choice [4] - display partiontion information
                            no partiontions
            choice [5] - change current fixed disk drive
                        disk    mbytes  free    usage
                        1       504     504     0%
                        2       1221    1221    0%

    conclusion:
            the drives are seen with fdisk but the information (master  
        boot record? ) is not there.  My best guess is to try and run 
rmv /mbr.  What do you think?

                                mark j. soule

    btw, I've promised my wife a brief resite after the hubbub the last 
month.  I'll be away wednesday but as usual I've got a "shit load" ... 
scientific term ... of review thoughts I'd like to share.  I'll get 
them to you asap.