hdparm -C seems to work on the PATA laptops I have, but it always returns standby on the SATA laptops I have. Is this a known issue? thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html