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From: rickk@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Rick Klaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mac IIsi Hard Drive "Feature"
Message-ID: <1170028@hp-vcd.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Apr 91 17:08:29 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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Hi net gurus!!
   I have a question regarding the Mac IIsi hard drive and figured
that somone on the net would have the answer.  It seems that my drive
has a power-down "feature" as it shuts down after about 2 minutes of
inactivity (of the drive, NOT the mac).  Is this normal?  Should the
timeout be this short?  Better yet... How do I disable this "feature"
completely?  It reduces the effective speed of the machine, since I
am constantly waiting for the drive to spin back up.

Thanks
Rick Klaus
rickk@hp-vcd.hp.com

P.S. I did look through the manuals and can find nothing about this.