Arghhh Sleepy Slave Drive

johnrpjohnrp
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
How do i prevent my slave drive from falling asleep ?

when it sleeps it takes time to spin up before i do any file browsing or empty the "Trash"



any help it's drivig me crackers

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    mgossettmgossett Posts: 85member
    Look in the Energy Saver control panel.



    -Mike
  • Reply 2 of 5
    airslufairsluf Posts: 1,861member
  • Reply 3 of 5
    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    There are jumpers on some drives, (I think IBM), that allow the drive to sleep. One jumper is Master/Slave/CS, the other is 5min/30min/no sleep.



    "A master of drives, you are not"- Yoda
  • Reply 4 of 5
    murkmurk Posts: 935member
    I had the same problem with a drive. Turned out to be my IBM drive going bad.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    johnrpjohnrp Posts: 357member
    Sorry for posting in the wrong place <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />



    The Energy controll does not do it ( tried already) it is a wester digital drive.
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