Ext HDD falling asleep?

[brookied]

Hi Guys
OK my issue is that i have an Ext Philips 250gd drive, 3 partitions and hooked up via USB.

When i boot the Mac (mostly asleep) the drive may? wake. mostly it will not untill i remove the USB cable and plug in again, This will wake the ext hdd for about 20mins if not used , After this it falls asleep again.

I have all power saving options checked for ext devices, nothing indicates to fall asleep yet it still does.

Anybody else have this issue and know what i can do to prevent this. The most annoying issue from this is that when i look in finder for somthing it hangs as the Ext HDD is asleep all the time?

Thanks for any help
Darren

[SC68Cal]

That might be the controller for the hard drive inside the enclosure, to power off the disks.

[miniConvert]

My WD also falls asleep, eventually.

If it bugs you, you might want to consider writing a little program (in terminal or with automator, I guess that'd work) that accesses the drive every now and then to keep it awake :)

[brookied]

My WD also falls asleep, eventually.

If it bugs you, you might want to consider writing a little program (in terminal or with automator, I guess that'd work) that accesses the drive every now and then to keep it awake :)


Thanks for the help, I would have no idea on writing a program to keep the disc awake. New to Mac, :rolleyes:

I will have a poke around and see what i can find