External Firewire Hard Drive keeps going to sleep against my wishes

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RealMac Dedicated MacNNer Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Dallas, TX Status: Offline	Mar 20, 2007, 10:51 PM
	Before anyone flames me, I did do a search here and could not find an answer to my question. Is there any way to prevent an external firewire drive from going to sleep? I have set the energy saver pane in system preferences to not put disks to sleep, my internals are fine but the external seems to ignore that preference. I record video using an eyeTV hybrid and the sw generates errors if the drive isn't accessible when a program starts. The drive in question is a Seagate 750GB Pushbutton Back-up Hard Drive if it helps.
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