From: Donald A Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
David,
1. ( I ain't no expert, but in my experience with a 200GB Seagate
drive
that I installed in a Venus DS3 firewire case( several months ago ),
which I don't believe has a fan, all is well so far. I felt very
uncomfortable without a fan, but sin
On Feb 25, 2006, at 8:41 PM, Ginny Evans wrote:
I just turn it off, I will get a "memo" window telling me that my
aux. HD was improperly shut down & I may have lost data. (To my
knowledge, I've never lost anything, but--).
You are lucky. It is entirely possible to trash the entire volume
On Feb 25, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Donald A Parsons wrote:
2. The firewire drive can be turned on while the CPU is running,
which I do regularly, but to shut the firewire drive down, I do a
shut down of the CPU and then turn off the FW drive.
You don't need to do this.
I believe that you can
David blurbed:
Bought a FW external box and drive (Seagate 120GB 7200rpm). I will
probably end up putting this inside my QS 933 tower and moving the
60GB ST360021A Barracuda Seagate out into the external case.
Couple of questions:
(1) The case I bought has no fan and is a bit meagre in proport
On Feb 25, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Donald A Parsons wrote:
<< It has seemed easier to just shut down the CPU, turn off the FW
drive and then restart up the CPU.
Best wishes,
Don>>
It has never been necessary for me to shut my CPU down in order to
close the Aux. HD. If you go up under Finder & clic
My G3 w/ G4 CPU, running OS10.3 (two internal HDs, one containing
Classic 9.2.2 & the other the 10+) also has an External HD. I have to
turn my Ext. HD "on" so that the icon will appear on the desktop in
order to access it. If, when I'm finished using it, I just turn it off,
I will get a "mem
In my experience over 3 or 4 years, it is perfectly safe to eject/
dismount a firewire drive from the desktop and then shut the drive
down. Restart the drive any time you like. No need to power down the
system.
Just remember to eject/dismount the drive (if the drive is
partitioned, ejecting
David,
1. ( I ain't no expert, but in my experience with a 200GB Seagate drive
that I installed in a Venus DS3 firewire case( several months ago ),
which I don't believe has a fan, all is well so far. I felt very
uncomfortable without a fan, but since it is only a "clone" backup I
have trie
Bought a FW external box and drive (Seagate 120GB 7200rpm). I will
probably end up putting this inside my QS 933 tower and moving the
60GB ST360021A Barracuda Seagate out into the external case.
Couple of questions:
(1) The case I bought has no fan and is a bit meagre in proportion (I
just
