I could confirm this problem on my Toshiba M45-S355 laptop. HDD comes to an abrupt halt with a very distinict noise. The machine used to run Drapper before and did not have this problem. Neither do Win XP Pro.
-- Unsafe HDD (bad noise) spin down when shutting down Edgy Eft https://launchpad.net/bugs/68660 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs