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

[Wilkin, Wayne (Mass)]

Can I ask a stupid question?
Why doens't everyone just use the "Cable Select" option for jumpers. With
cable select you don't need to re-arrange jumpers or anything like that.
Just seems easier. 

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> From: 	David DelMonte
> Reply To: 	Power Macintosh G4 List
> Sent: 	Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:40 AM
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> Subject: 	Re: [G4] IBM Deskstars in new G4's and organization (xpost)
> 
> 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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