Hi Severin, I¹m just guessing here...
If it works fine on shutdown, but not on sleep, then my first guess would be that it is either the computer itself or the attached drives? Computer? Maybe the sleep current is really marginal with reference to the ³shut-off² current of the powerboard and during the sleep ³sequence² it varies below/above this threshold. My guess though would be that it is one of the attached peripherals: Drives ? I would imagine that a proper shutdown would unmount the drives prior to shutdown they would then switch-off OK and, next morning, everything powers back up again and the drives automatically mount on powering up. Perhaps just sleeping the computer does not actually unmount them without the Energy Saving Powerboard the drives would probably ³sleep² when the computer sleeps but perhaps actually powering the drives down, without properly ³unmounting² them causes the problem. You could always try unmounting the drive(s) and then sleeping the computer to see if it makes any difference.. Other peripherals? - thoughts: You could check if it is any particular component causing this by disconnecting them all and trying the ³sleep² command and seeing if the computer stays asleep and, assuming it does, then connecting them one by one and repeating the test until the problem surfaces. I¹m assuming you don¹t have ³Wake for network access² checked if you do, see if unchecking it makes any difference. Solutions? Will really depend on the problem/cause. If unmounting the drives first solves it but is a nuisance because you have several drives maybe you could do a ³sleep² script that unmounts the various discs and THEN sleeps the computer. (I haven¹t really messed with automator so I don¹t even know if this is possible/practical) Anyway, there you go no answers but a few thoughts ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [email protected] on 16/4/11 4:34 PM, Severin Crisp at [email protected] wrote: > Trying to be energy miserly I bought a Jackson Green Energy Saving Powerboard > (http://www.ji.com.au/products/PT9778/). > It works fine with my G5 plugged in to the Master socket and everything else, > display, printers, router, modem, Airport, scanner, Firewire drives and so on > in Slave sockets. When I shut down at night the G5 goes through Shutdown then > everything switches off. In the morning at 8.40am when the G5 restarts > everything comes back on. > There is an unfortunate snag. During the day when I am away from the desk I > put the G5 to sleep. When I try this it goes to sleep then almost instantly > reawakes. I believe that the sleep current drawn is so small that the board > obediently powers down the slaves and in their dying gasps the modem and the > like send out signals and the G5 responds by waking up. > Has anyone else used one of these gadgets or have any bright ideas for a > workaround? > Severin Crisp > > ________________________________________________________ > > Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP > > 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. > > Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) > > email mailto:[email protected] > > ________________________________________________________ > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
