I had the same prob, same make of drive, so I put SuSE 7.3 on it, and an additional fan installed, must be over a year ago now, not a glitch? I still make regular backups, but should'nt one always? I have always used reiserfs having had a bad experience years ago with Redhat 6.? and ext2. Picard to Worf, "On my command, unleash Windows 95"