I applaud your proper use of sentence structure and phrases outside the more common vernacular in constructing a sound and logical criticism of another's comment. It's very refreshing.

What did you say about loose bowels sonny? Yeah, they're a pain, I've had to have my diaper changed six times in the last hour. Oh, let me put my hearing aid in. VOWELS! Oh, gotcha now.

I'm going to also throw my lot towards eeebuntu. It runs great out of the box, netbook remix interface is fantastic, draws on the stock Ubuntu repos so you can use any software from Ubuntu. It's really the only distro for the eee that "Just Works"

Uhm... You've got red on you.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. The drive did spin up without reporting about fifteen times while I was troubleshooting (plugging it in to different spots, etc). After that point, the drive no longer spun up at all, and when powered the PCB gets extremely hot. With that information, do you think there's hope for the drive with a new PCB?

What I'd like to know is if there are instances of this in older drives, even as far back as the 7200.9's and if Seagate was possibly aware of a similar problem in the older drives. I've got a 7200.9 sitting here on my desk collecting dust that I was quite bothered with. It did, in fact, one day stop spinning up. Stopped reporting to the bios and all. Now, this happened to me after having already done an RMA on the first '.9'. This time the data WAS lost due to a problem as described (whereas the first seems to be unrelated). Instead of RMA-ing the second one, I've been hanging on to it with the hope someone will be able to help me. Unfortunately, in my drive to get the data off the disk, I purchased a Seagate drive that claimed to be a .9 in the ad, but showed up as a .10 instead, meaning no platter swapping for me (I didn't notice until AFTER I'd cracked the case on the .9) Any info you have would be a reassurance.

I would also like to point out that Konqueror was "replaced" by Dolphin, which in my opinion was a bad decision. I enjoyed all the things in Konqueror's filemanagement profile like tabbed browsing, and the ability to open Konsole pointed to the current location in an easily accessible logical place. The switch to Dolphin has utterly dumbfounded me. And it's likely I just have issues with it because I don't recognize it, as is expected with something new, but I still have yet to see the logic in the switch to Dolphin in it's current form. KDE 4.0 seems all pretty, little function. Though I gripe, I do admit it does look very nice, and it has potential for greatness.