On Jun 9, 2007, at 22:45, Ward Oldham wrote: > Hey Bill, > > I would first determine if the external hard drive (firewire? usb?) > is the root of the problem.
I should've been clearer: it is two different drives: a USB thumb drive and a firewire harddrive. I'll look at them both, though, to be sure. > Unmount the drive before putting your laptop to sleep. Observe if it > eliminates any/all of the gyrations you're being put through. If it > does, unmount the drive before putting your laptop to sleep. Oh, it most definitely does. The only problems come when the drives have been attached when I put my laptop to sleep. > OK, so it turns out to be your external hard drive but you prefer not > to unmount and disconnect your drive before sleep. The next step is > to perform disk repair on the external hard drive. Neither drive needed any repairs. > After that, confirm that your drive has the latest firmware update. The external drive has the latest firmware. I cannot find anything about firmware for the USB 2.0 drive. > Does the problem go away? No problem for one shutdown.... I'll try to keep tabs for future shutdowns, since the problem is intermittent. Thanks for the extra things to check. Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2413 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20070609/b00de0bb/attachment.bin
