[G4] IBM Deskstars in new G4's and organization (xpost)

[David DelMonte]

Two thoughts.

1. Software, make sure that the hard drive sleep option is turned off 
in the Energy Saver Preference panel,.

2. Hardware: look at the jumper switch settings on the back of the 
drives. Compare that with the descriptions at:

http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/jumpers.htm

Note that Hitachi is the new owner and support source for IBM drives.

I found that for slave drives, two jumpers should be set in the two 
right hand vertical pairs.

For the master drive, the rightmost vertical pair and the left most 
vertical pair should be connected.

Hope that helps

David


On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Jim Robertson wrote:

> 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
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