Sleeping Hard Drives

avrum113 (apparently) - 03:04pm Oct 26, 2005 PST
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The article on Hard Drive sleep issues in TidBITS#802/24-Oct-05
was very interesting especially the fact that one could
write an Applescript to modify the sleep issues. I am
looking for an Applescript that would force my external FireWire
hard drive to spin up at the same time my internal hard drive is
woken up from its sleep.

<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08294>

My current energy savings settings put my computer to sleep
after 15 minutes of inactivity. Presumably my external hard drive
spins down at the same time. In due course I awaken my internal hard
drive (which seems to take a long time) and begin to work. My
external hard drive remains asleep. Should I access something on my
external hard drive it will awaken (expected) but sometimes it
remains asleep until I open a file resident on my hard drives (.pdf
and occasionally .docs files opened from within their respective
application) and then I have the spinning beachball for what appears
to be a long time. So I would be interested in having my external
hard drive spin up when my internal hard drive spins up.


[I'm not sure about AppleScript, but you could probably do this with iKey, since you'd have a shortcut that woke up the external drive and was triggered by the wakeup event. -Adam]


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Avrum Lapin
Upland, CA