Also, is there a way to tell Fedora NOT to tell the hard disks to 'spin
down' on a warm reboot. I am sick of having to power cycle my machine to get
the controller to find my Deathstar hard disk.
Yes, there is. Upgrade to a newer kernel >= 2.6.6. The spin-down-problem was fixed in 2.6.6.
Cheers, Hannes.