Lacie External HD keeps going to sleep!!

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Lacie External HD keeps going to sleep!!

My Lacie External Hard drive always goes to sleep when I'm not using it and I was wondering is there anyway that I can keep it from going to sleep?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.

Posted on Oct 22, 2005 10:02 PM

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Ian Dunlop

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Oct 22, 2005 10:06 PM in response to Quin

Have you tried the Energy Saver setting in the System Preference pane?

(Apple) -> System Preferences -> Energy Saver

Select Sleep and look for [X] Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible

Cheers,
Ian

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Quin Author

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Oct 23, 2005 11:40 AM in response to Ian Dunlop

Hey Ian,

Yeah, I tried that before but it doesn't work. My Lacie hard drive still goes to sleep. I thought I heard there was something within the Developer's tools in xcode that let's you customize which hard drive or partition you want to go to sleep and which ones you don't, but I'm not sure.

Anyone else with some insight?

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Answer 3

Oct 23, 2005 2:11 PM in response to Quin

Hi Quin,

For the record, I had the exact same problem after attaching my Lacie hard drive to a new Power Mac G5. It would go to sleep after a few minutes. After unchecking that box the problem went away.

I wonder if it has anything to do with being on a Powerbook. Does this happen when you're attached to a power source?

Cheers,
Ian

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Quin Author

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Oct 23, 2005 5:58 PM in response to Ian Dunlop

Hey Ian,

My Lacie Hard drive is always attached to a power source (that's the only way to use it) and it's connected to my Powerbook via Firewire 800. I wonder what's going on because it's really annoying.

Quin

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Jeff--

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Oct 23, 2005 8:06 PM in response to Quin

Quin

do you know if the enclosure uses an Oxford 912 or 922 chip or an Initio chip, and do you know if they have the latest firmware installed on the bridgeboard in the enclosure?

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Oct 23, 2005 8:38 PM in response to Quin

Hi Quin,

I wasn't clear with my statement. I was referring to the powerbook - if that's plugged in or not. There are different energy settings based on whether the powerbook has power or not.

Cheers,
Ian

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Quin Author

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Oct 24, 2005 8:00 PM in response to Ian Dunlop

Hey Ian,

My Powerbook is always plugged in.

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Answer 8

Oct 25, 2005 8:23 AM in response to Quin

There is a interesting little article on this in this week's TidBits newsletter. You can read it online at

http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08294

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Quin Author

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Oct 25, 2005 7:47 PM in response to infinite vortex

Hey Ned,

Thanks for the article! I think this is going to work because X-Lab knows what their talking about. Thanks again!

Quin

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Ricktoronto

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Oct 26, 2005 11:25 AM in response to Quin

I use Cocktail ($15 but worth it for the Pilot tab and its 4 cleanup functions) which has a setting to never let drives sleep. None of my Lacie drives sleep as a result.

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Quin Author

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Oct 27, 2005 7:11 AM in response to Ricktoronto

Hey Rick,

Thanks for the advice! I actually have Cocktail and I never realized it had that option in one of it's tabs (silly me). But thanks for pointing that out, now I'm sure my drives won't go to sleep.

Thanks,

Quin

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