On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > How common are notebooks that cut power to disks during reboot? Not common at all. Given that it wears the electronics a lot, it must be either a defect (of the kinds Brazilian law forces the manufacturer to either fix or give you your money back). Assuming it also does this when running Windows, I'd report it as a grave bug to the vendor and demand it to be fixed, or the machine to be exchanged with another model that doesn't have this defect. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - 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