Seagate External Drives Info
2006-06-13 by 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: (internals are fine) -- Thanks: dave B O R U F F revDAVE@... - http://www.MuseNet.Com [db-06] ------ Forwarded Message > From: <DiscSupport@...> > Reply-To: <disc.support@...> > 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? > ======================================================== ------ End of Forwarded Message -- Thanks - RevDave CoolCat@... [db-lists]