[G4] About external drives

[John Wilson]

Hi Kevin. If the drive doesn't spin down by itself (which you may be 
able to cause to happen by checking "put hard disks to sleep when 
possible" in the Enery Saver preference pane under OS X), just drag it 
to the trash to unmount it which will cause it to unmount and sleep. To 
remount it use the Disk Utility app. John

On Nov 17, 2004, at 9:25 PM, Kevin Willis wrote:

> I just started using the "sleep" mode on my G4 instead of shutting 
> down every night.  It has been running for about a week now.  I have a 
> 40 Gb drive installed in an external case connected to a USB port.  
> The external case has it's own power switch.  Should I power off the 
> external drive when I put the system to sleep, or should I let the 
> drive spin until it eventually crashes?
>
> Thanks--
>
> Kevin
>
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