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From: sigurasg@rhi.hi.is (Sigurdur Asgeirsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac IIsi Hard Drive "Feature"
Message-ID: <3061@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 18 Apr 91 16:39:16 GMT
References: <1170028@hp-vcd.HP.COM>
Organization: University of Iceland
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In <1170028@hp-vcd.HP.COM> rickk@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Rick Klaus) writes:

>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.

  A friend of mine bought a IIsi, when he got it the internal 80Mb drive was
defective, so he took it back and had the HD replaced.  When he got the mac
back it had the same "feature" you mention.  The "repairman" told him that
he replaced his HD with one from another IIsi, 80Mb low profile HD's being
in short supply at the time.  Eventually they replaced the HD again and the
"feature" went away.  Incidentally, his HD would spin down after one minute,
almost to the second, of inactivity.

	Sigurdur Asgeirsson
	sigurasg@rhi.hi.is

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