On Saturday, February 14, 2004, at 09:57 AM, Roger Shufflebottom wrote: > 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 > I suppose it could be one of these IBM/Hitachis and as you say , it's irritating. Jim