01-30-2010, 06:43 PM
thermarest wrote:
Problem I'm trying to solve: when I have an external FW drive attached, it spins down per the Energy Saver prefs check box and I find it irritating and disruptive when the whole system freezes while the HD spins back up. (As we all know, OS X waits for the drive to spin up often even if the current operation doesn't actually need anything from the drive).
I think there's something else going on there. I can mount, unmount, and remount drives (at least internal ones) with no interruption to current operations.
Anyway, here are some links that I think will put you on the right path to creating a useful AppleScript, plus a couple of pre-built utilities that might be useful:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?s...0905050737
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa...ID=1872806
http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/
http://ian.aramisdesign.com/software/ ( "Presentation Mode" )
http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/disksomnia (unfortunately, for use with Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express only)
(EDIT: sheesh, spent too much time with the googles...you guys beat me to it)