Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rosen
From: rosen@cs.utexas.edu (Eric Carl Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI Saver Compatability...
Keywords: SCSI Saver
Message-ID: <1104@priddy.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 91 01:41:14 GMT
References: <021891.173801BRBOYER%MTUS5.BITNET>
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
Lines: 22

I tried SCSI Saver today with my Macintosh II, equipped with a single
internal 40 MB Apple (Quantum) hard-drive.

SCSI Saver succesfully spun down the drive after the specified time
of idle disk spinning, but was unable to reawaken the drive when I needed
it. Folders would not open. Applications would not launch. Every imaginable
disk access failed.

Restarting did not solve the problem. Eventually, the disk-with-a-question-mark
icon came up.

I was forced to power-cycle the machine to get things back to normal.

With my fingers crossed, I tried this three times with various combinations
of applications running doing various things. I was not surprised to see the
same things happen each time.

Anybody know what differences exist among Apple's standard hard-disks? I saw
an earlier posting where somebody with similar hardware was using SCSI Saver
with no problems.

--Eric