Danis Petkakis wrote: > you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep? > because it is mounted it cannot be put to sleep? >
If you have a journalized file system, you may have to. Every time it updates the journal it will spin the drive back up. I think some of the gurus need to know what file system you are using and then go from there. Spinning down a drive can be done but some situations won't allow that to happen to well. Dale :-) :-)