RE: [OT] Firewire Power Saving

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> As some may be aware i've recently purchased a couple of 8 bay
> firewire enclosures for dvd ripping
>
> However when i try to use power saving with windows on these drives
> it totally sucks :-(
>
> Depending on the version of windows i use it shuts down the drives
> when in use and/or won't wake them again
>
> I guess there's a possibility the hard drives (all new) have a
> firmware fault - but not much i can do about that

Before you abandon Windows try the uBcore firewire drivers - they may get
around your problem for you. (Have you not yet hit the "Delayed Write
Failure" problem with Windows?)

> Phil said he's using a mini-mac ok for power saving

Nope - I use a Mac Mini for serving ... I don't have it spinning down the
drives when not in use, however, as I unmount and mount the drives whilst
doing admin it does spin them down and back up correctly so probably would
be OK.

> so this seems to
> be my only current option (unless i run a network cable to the
> garage and forget about power saving) but before i shell out on one
> just to act as a file server i was wondering if anyone has any other
> ideas/suggestions please?
>
> Also, if i go mini-mac, i assume it won't recognise NTFS formatted
> drives?

I think it reads them but won't write to them...

Phil