--- You wrote: There is a setting in the Energy Saver System Pref to "Put hard drives to sleep when possible." Uncheck that and it should not spin the drives down any more. Also, set the slider for "Never" for computer sleep. The same can be done in 10.2 but the wording is different. --- end of quote --- This should work but it sometimes didn't for me in 10.2.x. I don't know about 10.3 which does have a different preferences for that. That's why spindownfix is useful. It's really an applescript for a unix command. Better safe than sorry when its a buck or more a disk.
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