I'm a new member, thanks for reading, glad to be here finally. I'm new to using macs within the past year, now I have four of them consequently.
Among those, I have a new 27" imac, and I have 3 external disks attached to it, both Firewire and USB. Every time I navigate anywhere (in Finder) where it displays the disks, it beach balls for 15 seconds while it spins up each disk, in order. The disks sleep within 20 minutes, the USB disk much less.
This is a little annoying. In the power saving options, I have disabled "sleep when possible". I have even changed the disksleep option in terminal to "0".
I didn't see this thread anywhere in searches, hope someone can help.
-BP
Among those, I have a new 27" imac, and I have 3 external disks attached to it, both Firewire and USB. Every time I navigate anywhere (in Finder) where it displays the disks, it beach balls for 15 seconds while it spins up each disk, in order. The disks sleep within 20 minutes, the USB disk much less.
This is a little annoying. In the power saving options, I have disabled "sleep when possible". I have even changed the disksleep option in terminal to "0".
I didn't see this thread anywhere in searches, hope someone can help.
-BP