On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 09:45 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > I cannot seem to back it up (complains of disk failures (but the disk > is < 2 months old!)) If the drive really is faulty, I wonder if that's due to the hard drive been set to park its heads as soon as it's idle (which gets woken up by Linux seconds later, rinse, lather repeat). There was some fuss, some while back, about laptop drives being killed off by Linux. Though the fuss ignored the fact that Windows did the same thing. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines