Iv'e never had any problems with esternal firewire drives being on or off. I never fire up my system without my midi and audio intefaces on, so wouldn't know there. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of William R. McCann Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 5:58 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Soliciting Your Help to Correct Erroneous JAWS Reactivation Request (JAWS Error 6) [cross-posted] > Maybe they can't fix the problem without acquiring the information to figure out where the problem is. Well said, Damon. Indeed, there is a growing list of hardware gadgets which we blind musicians are beginning to use. It would be unreasonable to expect any screen reader manufacturer to acquire each one of them. That's where we can help. The people at FS would like to find a general solution to this problem but, until a general solution can be found, they're going to have to build a reference list of gear that is known to be in use and which should not interfere in any way with the JAWS authorization process. Thanks for whatever assistance you can provide here. Sure, we're helping FS but consider that we are helping them to try to help us and all blind musicians. Bill