Maxtor ext FW drive and OS X

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Macola Mac Elite Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Madison, WI Status: Offline	Dec 20, 2001, 11:41 AM
	Has anyone figured out a good solution to prevent this drive from spinning down after a minute or so in OS X? Someone in the OS X forums had a suggestion for using a cron job that accessed the drive every minute. However, that's somewhat clunky, and I'd like a better solution if there is one. This seems to be a common problem with Maxtor drives. The same drive works fine in OS 9.x. [ 12-22-2001: Message edited by: Macola ]
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