This is FYI and so I hope I don't get flamed for this.(yes, I've seen it happen) Anyway, if you're an owner of a specific list of Hitachi Mobile Drives, and you've been experiencing some sort of "clicking" noise, it could really be the hard-drive firmware. I only found out today when I checked on DELL's website and found the firmware update. Seems like IBM also had something like this reported in ZDnet. I just flashed my hard Drive (80GB Hitachi) and I'll monitor to see if it still clicks. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:04:36 up 57 min, 4 average: 0.49, 0.25, 0.44