Had a similar problem with an iMac at work and it also would go to sleep at very spontaneous moments, typing, drawing, whatever it didn't matter just went to "sleep", hit any key and it would come back. When the HD icon disappeared off the desktop, it would cause the drive to disappear from Disk Utilities as well, I would wait a few minutes and it would re-mount itself. So I do a reinstall of the system (basically a Snow Leopard version of archive and install). So far that seems to have taken care of both issues.
And for those about to ask yes I checked and reset all the energy and screen saver settings, Dumped appropriate prefs and so on before the reinstall. On Apr 26, 2012, at 2:20 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: > On 4/26/12 12:50 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: >> On Apr 25, 2012, at 6:33 PM, JohnV wrote: >> >>> When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to >>> sleep) how does one get it to re-mount? >> >> You've got a USB issue here. First your iPod Touch isn't recognized, now >> you're saying your HDs are "drop off the screen" which isn't supposed to >> happen ever, and both are USB related. You've got a bigger problem than >> a HD sleep issue because your iPod is definitely wrong behavior for >> certain, and it has nothing to do with software on your G5, it's a pure >> hardware issue. >> >> You should look in your Utility>Console logs for error messages related >> to USB. It's likely you'll see error messages. If your USB ports are >> bad, you may need to purchase a USB PCI card. >> > You might try asking on [email protected] , maybe yhey have > ideas also. > > -- > 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 -- 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
