[X4U] Seagate External Drives Info

[revDAVE]

It looks like ALL SEAGATE EXTERNAL DRIVES over 200 gig have a permanent
feature of sleep mode every 5 to 10 minutes - and therefore are a bad idea
on a Mac because they make the Mac wait about 10 seconds every 5-10 minutes
while they wake from sleep (assuming you're not using it) - and there is NO
WAY to fix this...!!!

BTW: ( Seagate internals are fine)

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------ Forwarded Message
> From: <DiscSupport at seagate.com>
> Reply-To: <disc.support at seagate.com>
> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:44:21 -0500

> Subject: Re: |ST3300601CB-RK|MacOS||new 300 gig drive
> 
>  Hello,
> 
>  Unfortunately this drive cannot have the sleep mode turned off, as it is a
>  safety feature to keep the drive intact. It is not a setting on your
>  system, it is a setting on the drive that goes into effect after 5-10
>  minutes of inactivity.
> 
>  Nicholas W.
>  Seagate Technical Support
> 
>  ========== Customer's original message ==========
> 
> 
>  ========================================================
>  new 300 gig drive - formatted in 10.43 Tiger - one partition.
> 
>  - even though Energy saver " put hard disks to sleep" IS UNchecked ...
>  this drive still constantly goes to sleep!  - someone said that you have
>  some kind of PC software application that  can remove some kind of PC
>  drivers from this hard drive to fix this  problem .. is this true - will
>  it fix the problem?  - if so ... where is the URL - so that I can download
>  the software  application? What is it called - And how do I use it to
>  solve this  problem?
>  ========================================================

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