FireWire drives taking naps

[Don Greening]

[Tom Wolsky] “Anybody know what this, or what its current equivalent is. “

Yep. It was called “Spindown Fix.” You can get it here as a .dmg download:

https://www.macmaps.com/software.html

It looks like it’s been tested to work up to OS 10.4.2. If your software is more recent you might be on your own

– Don

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[Tom Wolsky]

Thanks Don.

All the best,

Tom

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[Chris Poisson]

Tom,

I have never, ever had a drive “spin down” or go to sleep, whatever. Could this be because I unchecked the sleep box in the energy saver panel? I have been running about every generation of LaCie drives up to Big Disk Extreme, plus a couple of Maxtor drives, never had any of them sleep.

[Kenny Powerass]

OWC recently recommended I use CHUD to manage my exterior drives, but my drives have so far ignored the settings and continue to go to sleep every ten minutes or so.
Very frustrating. Especially when printing to tape and the sequence refers to footage on a dormant drive more than ten minutes in.
I’m going to try Spindown Fix, too – even though I’m running 10.4.8.