Sorry Ronnie ….. I realise this is not related to Alan’s issue. Just making a comment re sleeping Macs and USB hard drives ! I understood when I originally had this sleeping Mac issue that the problem was that HD manufacturers were not keeping up with Apple’s extremely low power in relation to the latest Macs when sleeping ?
For a while I tried to keep up with new HDs as they were released but could never see this low power issue being addressed by any of the HD manufacturers. So I eventually gave up looking ! > On 25 Nov 2014, at 3:11 pm, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 25 Nov 2014, at 2:08 pm, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Ronni, >> The problem I have with that is that my USB portable HD ejects if iMac is >> put to sleep. > > That is the fault of the USB portable HD not the iMac going to sleep. > The USB Drive is not entering 'standby mode' when the iMac is placed in sleep. > >> That HD is my Time Machine Backup. > Time Machine won't do a backup while the iMac is sleeping. >> >> So since I replaced my large mains HD with this one about a year ago, I no >> longer sleep my iMac. >> I shut down every night and re-start each morning. > > That is your choice, which is fine. > But it really doesn't have anything to do with Alan's issue with a 'suspect' > HD. > > Cheers, > Ronni > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better
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