Lacie disk on FW not sleeping after installing Mavericks

I do not believe the adapter will work. If you really want ML you can purchase direct from the Apple Store.

Can you connect the drive via USB? This would resume normal standby mode activity of your drive.

There is presently no fix for this issue and unlikely there will be one as Apple has largely abandoned FireWire as an interface in lieu of thunderbolt and USB3.

Hi all. This is how it works in Mavericks. We will have to get used to it.

My FW800 drives also no longer spin down when I put my Mac to sleep, but they do spin down when they are ejected. If I eject them first and then put my Mac to sleep, they stay asleep.

There's a utility called Sleepwatcher that runs as a launch daemon and will run a script when your Mac sleeps, and another script when it wakes. This is what I now use to make my FW800 drives spin down and stay asleep when I put my Mac to sleep; My sleep script ejects them and my wakeups script mounts them.

I hope this helps.

Out of frustration, I broke down and purchased one of these

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Lacie/9000186/

It does seem to solve most of the FW / Mavericks issues and is MUCH FASTER that FW800. My one remaining issue is with an OWC Mercury Elite Pro enclosure containing a WD Green drive. Every time my mac mini wakes from sleep, it gives me the message that this drive has not been ejected properly. This doesn't happen with OWC enclosures and other types of drives, so it is something to do with WD Green. I even installed 'jetsetter', which is supposed to better manage mounting and unmounting of external drives. But it was of no help. Due to this and numerous other issues cited, I would stay away from WD Green drives.

As nothing worked here with the existing 2x8TB+1x1TB I got "Jettison" from the App-Store... now its bridging the systems' inability to work properly...

The App Store blurb features the laptop Mac but not the iMac.

Does Jettison work with the iMac?

Does it work with Firewire drives?

Thanks.

I read in another discussion that even TB drives will not sleep with Mavericks (only USB) but USB will not shut down when Mac shuts down. I guess that's the trade off

Hi, Stevekir!

Well, with me it is working fine.... it appears to be a MountainLion-Version in the App-Store, but I run the latest Mav and with the exception for a minor feature called Notifications (Sounds on executed tasks-status) all is fine.... it is a much better way to safe all the noise, if the exts are not needed or go into sleep mode and eject before - both of which are preset scripts conveniently runable from the sidebar.... so far I am relieved, if not totally so.... and, yes, I only use FW800s.... with the iMac....

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It has been confirmed multiple times that both USB(2+3) and thunderbolt enter standby mode normally in 10.9. Issue is with FireWire alone that is apparently no longer supported.

Something did change in the last system update, however. Previously my external drive would remain spinning - even when ejected - and had to be shut off using the power switch on the Drive itself. Since the update that’s changed: the drive now spins down when ejected, and no longer needs the power switch turned off. So that’s progress - of a sort, I suppose.

I wonder if I used a TB to FW adapter cable from my TB display to FW drive if my FW drive would sleep?

AE told me this should help, however some people have posted on this forum that it did not solve the problem...

Well it looks like I'm stuck for now...

I tried Jettison to see if it would help my OWC Mercury elite pro external drives to spin down once ejected but no luck. I assume sleepwatcher would only do the same thing since their purpose is one and the same (except Jettison is WAY more user friendly) so those to options are out for me.

kdeemer....how did you know your WD drives were the "green" ones??? I wonder if that's what I have? They went to sleep fine before the Mavericks upgrade.

Cornel....what type of external drive do you have that the recent mavericks upgrade fixed your problem?

One of my drives is for all our media (movies, photos etc.) and the other is our time machine backup drive for everything, so USB would really slow things down....because my imac is from 2007, it doesn't have USB3 ports at all.

I'm in too deep with Mavericks and several updated apps that only run on mavericks, to try to switch to Mountain Lion at this point. So mavericks is now the "crazy neighbor next door" I have to live with.

When I called OWC to find out what solutions they would recommend, they said this was a major issue that apple is fully aware of and all we can do is wait for a bug fix at some point. He insisted that it's fine for the drives to spin all the time and won't affect the life of the drive, but I don't believe that. My drives get very hot and my computer is on 16-18hrs each day.

There has to be a hack to fix this issue....anyone????

Hi folks/ivansnikki!

Unfortunately, the JETTISON-App let me down last night - at first, it correclty jetisoned all ext FW800-drives and went to sleep... so I went, too.... in the morning, the iMac still sleeping all 3 blue eyes of Lacie-Terror looked at me, in full power mode... just to let you know. I.e. even the Jettison-App appears to not fully function with regs to a secure and full deactivation...

Why not schedule nightly shut downs? Better for your Mac and external disks. It's what apple themselves do.