>> The problem is that the hard drive will park (spin down) and then in <1 >> second, spin back up again. This repeats ad infinitum regardless of my
Depending what the actual problem is, noflushd might help. I just installed it into my Thinkpad 560X and seems to work fine. One thing, however: there's a prepackaged .deb but it requires newer libc and won't work with Potato (I suppose Woody is ok). I had to compile it from source. noflushd.sourceforge.org -- | Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [PGP public key | Homepage: http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/ available] | Studying information engineering at the University of Oulu +-----------------------------------------------------------