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

[James Asherman]

David DelMonte wrote:

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

Yup. Been that way .

>
>
> 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.

Went there as soon as I took it out of the box.

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

That's the one that looked right to me.
So I guess from the responses that if mine is only taking like 1.5 
seconds to come back to full function that every thing is
huynky dory and I shouldn't worry, and it does seem to have no problem 
remaining engaged while playing back a n FCP program from the timeline. 
(often 1-2hrs from the one drive.)
Jim

>
>
> 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.
>>