Robert Moskowitz wrote: > OOPS, been 15 min, about, and I just heard the drive seek again. But 15 > min I can live with; 30 sec was nerve-racking (on an otherwise silent > system, no fan). This may be of help, haven't tried it myself: http://martin.hinner.info/mybook/spindown.php Looks like you can get the system to log what causes the drive to spin up. nate