On 1/14/03 7:49 PM, "diane" <diane at mathermotorsports.com> wrote: > Actually I noticed that with most of my drives in OSX. I have drive > sleeping turned off yet they still snore away. Best part is when I > wake the machine up, everything is working fine, and then for some > reason a drive I don't need wakes up and slows things down for a > minute. YES!! (although in my case the beach ball spins perhaps 10 seconds while I wait for the napping hard drive) (If someone knows how to stop this disk drive dozing, could they post the cure?) Jim Robertson --