Hello John,

   JK> Yes, but not much software is smart enough to do
     > transfers between the drives themselves.

Pity.  Perhaps it's time to write some?  <grin>

   JK> But you're assuming that the external and internal
     > busses are connected; they are not.

I wasn't making that assumption, but I probably didn't
express myself too clearly in my post.  Assume I have an
hard disk and a cd-writer both external and both hanging
from the same SCSI bus.

- Andy Ball.