on Thu, Jul 29, 2004 "A-NO-NE Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have said:
>>This has been a bug in PM for a long time. I've learned to live with it >>but it does make it very painful to switch user environments when you >>have 8-10 drives online like I do > > >Just curious. >Why do you spin down your drives, which shortens your drive life in great >deal? I never spin down any of my drives, running 24/7, except when my >TiBook travels with me :-) Don't have a choice; my external drives just spin down on their own and I've never found a way to prevent them from doing so. I have the spin- down setting off in my prefs, but it only effects the internal drives. But even when all the drives are spun up, the time it takes PM to startup while all drives are searched (for what?) is very noticeable ... I sit and watch it go from one drive to the next. Lane Roathe President Ideas From the Deep <http://www.ifd.com> ___________________________________________________________________ Q. "If you knew it wasn't true, why did you report it?" A. "If nobody watches my show, we will all starve." Actual response from Denver TV news anchor in response to questions in an A&E Investigative Reports airing. And people believe what they watch!
