> >At 05:48 PM 4/3/2002 -0500, you wrote: > ><snip> > >>And will it stay spinning for several more minutes, even if you repeatedly > >>try the spin-down command? > >> > >>Susanna > > > >Do you have Appletalk or File Sharing on? That'll also keep it spun up. > > Nope, I have a really minimal system folder on the RAM boot disk -- > no Appletalk or File Sharing stuff. I have no extensions at all in > the system folder, and just 3 control panels. (Hmmm...I wonder > if there's some extension or control panel I'm missing that helps > to manage hard-drive spinning.) > > Susanna
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