Comment 4 for bug 198125

I assume that a 500 GB drive has a wall-wart for power. Loss of power to the drive with the laptop still running could be problematic. I'm going to plug mine into a spare UPS that I have lying around. You can track the problems by following the timestamp in the syslog file from when you booted to when the problems occurred and see if that corresponds to the time of the power outage. Any VCR's or microwave clocks flashing?