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

wappling wappling at tampabay.RR.com
Thu Jan 16 00:01:37 PST 2003


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



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