HD spindown.

[Philip83]

I reinstalled OSX 10.3 two days ago from scratch. After that Iäve had some trouble with my external firewire disk spinning down when i leasve the comp. for a while, or set it to sleep. It freezes the Finder and brings the lollipop for a while. then I have to shut off and turn on th HD to make it start up again. Guess this is not good for the HD in the long run.
I didnt have this problem before i re-installed OSX.. what could be wrong?

Im in a Powerbook G4 667 DVI..

 

[Zammy-Sam]

Go to System Preferences and click on Energy Saver. Uncheck Put the hardisc(s) to sleep when possible. Still surprised why the finder freezes.. Good luck

 

[Philip83]

ill try that..
thanks

 

[edX]

you also might try going to versiontracker and getting "Spindown fix" which will run a script to keep externals from spinning down.