Airport Extreme and the Lacie 500GB mini firewire & usb no shut down issue.

Hey there everyone out there in cyberland, I was hoping that some one could shed some light on this simple issue I am having. I connected my airport extreme directly to the Lacie mini and the fan on the mini never shuts off because it never gets to go into sleep mode. Besides letting shutting it off completely is there a way that the airport can have a direct energy saver so the hard drive does not lose life through the time it is on and spinning? Apple should look into this kind of app since they are trying to be as green as possible. I do not want to have to buy a mac mini to just run the energy save on board the OS there. Is there a patch of fix for this, I looked in the airport utility and there is nothing there so am I missing something?
Thanks a million!
Tinybubbles

Hey there everyone out there in cyberland,
Welcome to the discussion group, Tinybubbles.
I was
hoping that some one could shed some light on this
simple issue I am having. I connected my airport
extreme directly to the Lacie mini and the fan on the
mini never shuts off because it never gets to go into
sleep mode.
Several other users have reported the same issue with Lacie drives.
Besides letting shutting it off
completely is there a way that the airport can have a
direct energy saver so the hard drive does not lose
life through the time it is on and spinning?
Nope. Sorry.
Apple should look into this kind of app since they are
trying to be as green as possible. I do not want to
have to buy a mac mini to just run the energy save on
board the OS there.
Is there a patch of fix for this,
I looked in the airport utility and there is nothing
there so am I missing something?
Nope. No patch. Your only choice is call Apple Support (you have 90 days to do so for free from the date you purchased the AEBSn), and report the problem.

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