Lacie disk on FW not sleeping after installing Mavericks

Worked very well for me too, changing FW to USB, connecting LaCie d2 Quadra to MacBook Pro, 15" medio 2010, 8GB, 500 GB 7200 rpm. And OSX Mavericks.Thanks.

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I have te same issue widely reported. Firewire connected external drives will not go to sleep, USB connected ones will. Obviously, this is a problem which needs to be fixed very quickly. You also wonder why something like that could get by QA in a major system release.

Same here. Both my 3TB FW800 G-Technology G-Drive will not spin down as they used to in previous OS X releases, and boy do they get hot...

Apple should do something about that quickly, before they are facing people who want their broken FW disks replaced ....

I don't think a drive should get "hot" if it remains active for hours at a time. Server grade drives would be spinning all of the time. However, over time having a disk connected to a personal computer constantly spinning would definitely shorten the amount of time it will last before failure.

Just mentioning this, I have the same problem on my 2008 iMac and a 600 GB Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme. The combination has worked properly for several years, running Leopard and Snow Leopard. But since I've installed Mavericks, the disk refuses to spin down as soon as I use a Firewire (400) cable to connect it to the computer. It keeps spinning even with the iMac in stand-by (short push on the power button).

Operation is normal with a USB2 cable.

As this is an older machine that has worked correctly before, I doubt that the problem is in the hardware. Mavericks seems to put some signal on the Firewire port that keeps the drive awake, even with the system in stand-by. This disk will normally spin down on its own accord when there's no activity on any of the signal ports.

If you have a RAID setup, data corruption is possible. Exact source determination has not been made yet.

Until there is resolution, keep all RAID setups unconnected and consider other means for backup, such as simplex USB non-RAID backup.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5475136

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1. Same problem with 3 FW800 LaCie drives, 2 different Macs just updated to Mavericks (a nasty, nasty place, as surfing spots go). Drives never power down, even with computer power off. One is a brand new MacBook Pro with mechanical drives and no Retina display. The other is a 2009 iMac quad core i7.

2. The iMac goes to white screen of death when I try to do a shutdown. Ultimately the screen goes dark, but there's still internal drive activity, etc. The only escape is a forced power down (long press of power button). Its LaCie is a 2 TB RAID in two 1 TB partitions. One partition is a (hopefully still) bootable "Restore" disk of Show Leopard. The other is dedicated to Time Machine. Did a Disk Utility check of the partitions, and both seemed fine.

3. This morning (that's after not sleeping 'til 4AM, so 'morning' is relative) I 'erased' the Time Machine on the iMac's FW800, and just finished creating a new Time Machine backup. Note: When Mavericks was installed, the icon for that partition turned to the orange FW generic, but kept the Time Machine name. As soon as the new Time Machine was created, the green Time Machine icon was restored (Yay!).

A revision was posted to this note. If you see only items 1 through 3, it's not the complete note.

Just wanted to keep this fresh for others who have external FW drives.

LaCie d2 Quadra v3 eSATA/FW800/USB3.0 having problems with Mavericks too on my MacBook Pro 2.2 i7 2011.

Blue lamp is flickering, Finder not responding, endless spinning beach ball of death.

No problems earlier with Mac OS 10.8.

+1 on the G-drive not sleeping. Interestingly I also have a WD Mybook Studio II which is the last one in the FW800 chain that sleeps quite happily. Haven't experimented to see if it is the model of drive or the position in the chain that is significant.

ME TOO not sleeping! My problem is my daily automatic backup (which I will have to do manually), and Time Machine (which needs to be mounted during the day) and I don't have any spare USB sockets.

I have sent a message to Apple via Apple feedback:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

I suggest everyone here does the same.

Someone said that Apple know about this and will fix it. The continuing problem that many people have with the Magic Mouse misbehaving since Lion was introduced over two years ago, through Mountain Lion and now Mavericks, does not give confidence that Apple will do anything.

In the meantime, I have reverted to Mountain Lion until/if Apple make a move. Others can just sweat it out.

Well, I hope they will fix it. But I reported a bug a year ago where closing the lid of my sleeping MacBook Pro wakes the computer, attached disks and monitors, etc. This was introduced by a firmware update which they quickly retracted. But they have done nothing whatsoever to fix this up until this time.

LaCie d2 Quadra v3 eSATA/FW800/USB3.0 having problems with Mavericks too.

The Quadra does not sleep correctly, unmount at irregular times.

Lacie Support refers to this discussion :-(

I sent a message to LaCie and they have replied:

" Basically this issue was escalated to a higher level support within our company and after contacting Apple they replied that this issue should be fixed by Apple because ALL FW drives are concerned (not only LaCie)."

Over the 18 years that I have used Apple computers this is the very first time that there is independent evidence that Apple actually know about a fault in their computer systems when aired in this discussion forum. So in theory that's a step forward. However, given their record in actually fixing faults (just look at all the complaints unsatisfied over the last 2 1/2 years concerning the Magic Mouse) perhaps the sleep problem will still be with us in 2016. Cross your fingers (although that has never worked).

I invite Apple to make an announcement that they acknowledge this fault and give an estimate when it will be fixed. A reasonable request? I think so.