in both drives i try to spin down i use ntfs as filesystem... 2009/2/7 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>
> Danis Petkakis wrote: > > you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep? > > because it is mounted it cannot be put to sleep? > > > > If you have a journalized file system, you may have to. Every time it > updates the journal it will spin the drive back up. I think some of the > gurus need to know what file system you are using and then go from > there. Spinning down a drive can be done but some situations won't > allow that to happen to well. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
