Hi, as nice as the gnome power manager works, it doesn't have a feature to put the hard drive to sleep when it is idol. In dos there use to be a program called sleep that did this. Does anyone know if there is such a program for Linux? Mike. X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 081112-0, 11/12/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean