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I just found out that the hard drive I received from Kahlon is a Toshiba in an IBM case. This is the likely reason for subsequent problems with the suspend, hibernation modes. A technician at Simple Technology which makes such drives told me that this is a well-known problem which occurs with some thinkpads. He said it was not model-specific (mine's a 355) or drive-specific which doesn't sound completely convincing. Apparently most of the companies selling in PC Magazine or Computer Shopper are dealing in non-Thinkpad drives and may result in this problem. Does anyone know of a company which sells IBM drives for a reasonable price? Micro Mall sells a Quantum drive in an IBM case -- is that more IBM compatible? Any input on this problem, experiences with it would be helpful to me. Fortunately, Kahlon will allow me to send mine back for a refund within 30 days. Right now I'm leaning towards sending it back since susp/hibernate are fairly important functions although I'm not sure if they're worth the rather pricey IBM drives. Regards, jlph John Lee Pratt Holmes Graduate Student, Dept. of Government and Foreign Affairs Univ. of Virginia