Well, I've just got a Seagate Momentus 160Gb drive and tried it out.
With mlords big disk builder.
No dice.

The serial output shows it trying todetect it, fails then kernel panics.

It aint power. The seagate label suggests 0.487A, I tried an old travelstar with a 1.1A requirement and it works fine. Spinup surely wont take that much more, besides, it does spin up ok.

From various testing at work with hard drives in our products (this one was a sample. perks) I've been finding issues with spin up times (was causing us problems) and drives not actually being ready before the OS starts looking for them.

Has anyone had a similar problem with dries in the empeg?

Is anyone running a Seagate momentus 160Gb drive?
I can grab an 80Gb tomorrow and try that out. Surely it wont be a capacity issue with mlords big disk upgrade?