Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!sun!rushforth!kcr
From: kcr%rushforth@Sun.COM (Kevin Rushforth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac + vs Mac SE
Summary: Don't touch that drive...
Message-ID: <106857@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 26 May 89 04:30:49 GMT
References: <391@zeus.hf.intel.com> <29326@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM
Reply-To: kcr@sun.UUCP (Kevin Rushforth)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
Lines: 19

In article <29326@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>(Note: if you select "Shutdown" in the finder, the hard disk powers
>down even though the machine is still running. Does anyone have an INIT to
>power-down the hard disk if it has been idle for 30 seconds, and to power
>it back up again before the next file access?)

I should hope not!  Repeatedly starting and stopping a hard disk drive
is the one thing most likely to cause premature death (er, next to
dropping it on the floor).  I have a Plus with an external hard drive,
and based on what I found out in this group, I have decided to power it
on in the morning and leave it on all day, whether or not the MAC is
on.  I only shut it down at night.

-- 
Kevin C. Rushforth                   | "If winning is not important,
Sun Microsystems                     |  then commander, why keep score?"
                                     |              - Lt. Worf
ARPA: kcr@sun.com                    |
UUCP: <most-backbone-sites>!sun!kcr  |