Re; just in case remember some hardrives get hot while running and sleep means no cooling fan on 1/15/03 10:25 AM, Jim Robertson at jamesrob at sonic.net 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