My HDD is set to spin down after like 20 minutes of inactivity. However, on the few occasions I have been sitting at the G5 when it does this, I hear:
PHEWWwww... (that's the spin down)
(a little time goes by)
(pheeeWWW-CHUNK) (now it spun up again and engaged)
Then it spins down again. Then spins up. The computer is basically not doing anything when this happens, as far as running processes. What's the deal? Do I need a firmware update or something? The Mac is not on the 'Net so it wouldn't be easy to update. 1.6GHz G5, running OS X 10.4.0 (but it happened under 10.3.x too).
PHEWWwww... (that's the spin down)
(a little time goes by)
(pheeeWWW-CHUNK) (now it spun up again and engaged)
Then it spins down again. Then spins up. The computer is basically not doing anything when this happens, as far as running processes. What's the deal? Do I need a firmware update or something? The Mac is not on the 'Net so it wouldn't be easy to update. 1.6GHz G5, running OS X 10.4.0 (but it happened under 10.3.x too).