Maybe Spotlight is indexing it? In System Preferences, click Spotlight and Privacy. Then you can drag that drive onto the panel to stop Spotlight indexing.
Graham Richard Wells wrote: > I am having a problem with my Western Digital My Book external hard > drive attached to my Mac Mini. It seems to be whirring away a lot of > the time and slowing down the whole system. > > I do use a partition on it for Time Machine which does its stuff every > hour. That is fine but it is doing it for ages in between back ups. > This has been happening for a while > > Looking at the activity monitor with iStat pro widget the CPU is > roughly 80% idle and the top items in Processes are all apps I am using. > > Any ideas about what is going on? > > Richard > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
