on Wed, Jul 28, 2004 "Christian Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have said:
>does anyone know why switching user environments by double clicking a >file of the new environment causes all attached harddisks to the machine >to spin-up when they had been spundown? This is even when the environment >is on the same, running disk as the old one. > >As it is, it takes roughly 10 to 15 seconds to switch environments >because that only happens when all attached HDs are back to operation. 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 (and even more painful when USB devices that mount drives are attached, like a camera, iPod or my iPAQ). I've been harping away on the double-click issue, so I haven't been bothering CTM about any others :) >Is there a way to avoid this? Is this an OS issue (what calls are made by >PM at switching environments that might cause the OS to have to read/ >write from all attached disks)? > >Thanks for any hints on how to avoid this. Have not found a way to avoid this to date :( 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!
