On Thursday, Apr 3, 2003, at 14:45 Canada/Eastern, Terry Harrison wrote: > ok maybe this is silly, but why not just go to System Preferences, > Energy Saver, and select "never" for "put system to sleep" and > uncheck "Put the hard disk to sleep when possible". Would that solve > it? First thing I tried, actually. This seems to affect the internal hard drive, but made no difference for the external firewire drive. Henry