At 10:49 AM -0500 12/9/2009, [email protected] wrote: >The QS has always been a nice quiet machine -- I almost never hear >it at all. The only noisy component of my collection here is the >external HD, which is on all the time so I can make immediate >backups whenever I have to, and that thing is loud enough to make >eveything else seem absolutely dead silent.
ah. I was hoping that was an easy way to tell if that drive was still spinning. The drives in my Power Macs each make individual sounds... >Respectfully, no, I can't open up the QS's drive. Remember I can't >do anything mechanical, Nooooo. I meant double-click on the volume's icon on the Mac's desktop! Not open the box. Unless it's already been done (so the data is cached by Finder), this will cause it to spin up. >Mounting aliases of HDs from networked Macs seems to be pointless, >though. I had the QS's HD Nucleolus mounted on the Mini and I made >an alias of it. It worked, as in I could get in and at all the files >by clicking on the alias, but it kept popping up the original "real" >icon for the HD -- so why bother with the alias? The point of the alias is for it to be on your Mini's desktop when the shared volume is NOT mounted on the Mini. Then, instead of having to go into the Networks pane, waiting for the browser client to refresh things, then connect to the drive etc .... you just double-click on that alias and it mounts that volume immediately. Once it's mounted on your desktop, yes, there are two icons - the real thing and the alias, redundant in function. But again, when you dismount that shared volume the alias will still be there, to be used to get it back quickly. >The QS's other HD will still not remount on the Mini at all (it's >greyed out when I go to select it), and the Mini will only >occasionally and temporarily mount on the QS. (it "disconnects"!) As a test, on the QS, Energy Saver system preferences, uncheck the spin down item. See if that fixes the availability issue. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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
