[badtz]

My firewire HD continues to spin after the powerbook is turned off ....

...... is this normal?

will it eventually turn off?

or should i manually turn it off, via the switch? [that would be annoying every single time]


Thanks for any help!

[subrosasupport]

Originally posted by badtz:
My firewire HD continues to spin after the powerbook is turned off ....

...... is this normal?

will it eventually turn off?

or should i manually turn it off, via the switch? [that would be annoying every single time]


Thanks for any help!

If your drive has its own power supply, tt will keep spinning unles you turn it off.

The ones that will turn themselves off are bus-powered units. They draw the power from the FireWire ports of the computers.

[badtz]

yeah, it has an external power supply ....


that bites that it keeps spinning though


it IS able to fall asleep when my computer does though [because of the settings]


errrrr


maybe there's a command that can be run on shutdown to put the drive to sleep/stop spinning ?

[CatOne]

Originally posted by badtz:
yeah, it has an external power supply ....


that bites that it keeps spinning though


it IS able to fall asleep when my computer does though [because of the settings]


errrrr


maybe there's a command that can be run on shutdown to put the drive to sleep/stop spinning ?

I think you gotta flip the switch

[bradoesch]

My Maxtor FireWire HD automatically spundown at shutdown with one of those OS 9 updates (maybe 9.1? don't remember) and does all the time now with OS X.
Maybe there's hope for yours....