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bradoesch · Apr 21, 2003, 12:54 PM

Hello, here is my situation:

I bought a Western Digital 120 GB SE drive for my iMac DV. It will sleep fine running 9.2.2, but when I try and put it to sleep under 10.2.5, the rest of the machine sleeps while the new hard drives sounds like it's spinning up and spinning down, again and again.
Since it works in 9 and not X, I'm thinking it's not really a hardware issue and a problem with OS X instead. Western Digital responded saying it was an issue with OS X and that the drive is fine.

My iMac:

iMac DV 400 MHz
1 GB
120 GB WD 7200 rpm SE
9.2.2.
10.2.4

Brad

so1omon · Apr 21, 2003, 01:19 PM

Ok, so I'm having the exact same problem. I came onto the forums today to ask the same question you did.

Hopefully, someone will have some insight...

bradoesch · Apr 21, 2003, 02:35 PM

Originally posted by so1omon:
Ok, so I'm having the exact same problem. I came onto the forums today to ask the same question you did.

Hopefully, someone will have some insight...

And we're not the only two! There are tons of people at XLR8YourMac that have the same issue. There's also some discussions at Apple's forums, but with no solutions.

bradoesch · Apr 24, 2003, 02:08 PM

bump

so1omon · Apr 30, 2003, 02:04 PM

It seems this is a fairly common problem that no one knows how to fix. Any ideas folks?

bradoesch · May 14, 2003, 05:52 PM

Still no luck with this. Lots of people are still having trouble though.
There are people at Apple's discussion boards (here, here and here), lots of reader reports of this issue at XLR8YourMac and of course this thread.

Brad

bradoesch · Jul 1, 2003, 11:39 AM

Bump

Still no luck getting the drive to sleep. I was really hoping Panther would solve the problem but it doesn't.

Anyone?