External HDD not sleeping since Mavericks

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External HDD not sleeping since Mavericks

I have a 2 TB G-Tech HDD which is used by Time Machine. With Lion as my mini's operating system, the G-Tech (connected by FireWire 800) would sleep periodically, and always when the mini slept. Since upgrading to Mavericks, the G-Tech doesn't sleep anymore - not periodically through the day and not when the mini sleeps. The G-Tech will sleep if I shut down the mini, not if the mini sleeps, and not if I eject the Time Machine volume from Disk Utility.

Does anyone know how I can get the drive to sleep again?

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srb

Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Jan 31, 2014 4:11 PM

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tbirdvet

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Jan 31, 2014 5:06 PM in response to Steven Blunk

Many have the same issue. It is not drive specific. No solution to date but Apple has been notiifed. USB drives sleep but will not shut down when Mac shuts down like FW drives. Very strange.

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