I have noticed that, too, and it is kind of annoying as that delay which occurs always seems to happen at a time when you want instant results! Does anyone know how to defeat it? Alex On Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003, at 05:11 US/Pacific, Power Macintosh G4 List 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. > > > Diane