At 13:42 -0500 13/2/04, James Asherman wrote: > The 80 gig ATA ultra star though, puts itself to sleep too often >and wakes sluggishly for me at least for editing. But they work >great. I have a La Cie 120GB external Firewire drive that goes to sleep, even though my Energy Saver is set to 'Never' (OS 10.2.8). Quite irritating when editing. I'm not sure what the mechanism is. -- With best wishes, Roger Shufflebottom