Demetrius wrote: > every so often, maybe once or twice an hour, there is this pause, i > hear a hard drive not sure which one spinning up (or down?), sometimes > i get the spinning circle, and it last from 5-10 seconds. very > annoying. never, or rarely happens on my old G3 powerbook, or my G5 at > work... > > it seems that perhaps it's not the OS disk that is starting and > stopping, as it happens in the middle of doing something, when i > presume the os drive should be in use... i have > > it's a G4 Mirror Door Drive, Dual 1.25ghz, 1GB RAM, running 10.5.8 > > could it be that i have OS installed on not the optimum drive? there > are four drives in it, and i just randomly choose one... (got in on > ebay a year ago) > > in System Prefs --> Energy Saver, should i leave box unchecked that > would put drive(s) to sleep when possible? or will that cause > unnecessary wear... seems crazy to leave all the drives running all > the time!?
I would check that box as a test. See if the problem goes away. If it doesn't go away then odds are you have a disk going bad. If it does go away then you don't have a problem, it just taking a little bit of time for a disk to spin up when you access it. Either leave the Energy Saver option checked and leave them running all the time the machine is awake or uncheck it and put up with the delay. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
