david@mono.org writes:

> 	I get them everytime my laptop disk powers up from suspend mode 
> 	(plus a hang of about 5 or so seconds)

That's one thing I was impressed with...  My laptop does not do this,
although I can hear the disk spin up and shut down from time to time.

Of course, suspent mode doesn't work on my laptop, but that's another
issue...

--Michael