Delay with USB drive

I have a Lacie USB drive connected to my MacBook. Frequently, when I do certain things (not sure what) but definitely when I click to save a file the drive seems to "wake up" even when Finder is just being displayed. The wake up takes about five seconds and is an annoying delay. Then in a minute or two I can hear the drive shut down, waiting for the next time to become an interruption. I'm on Snow Leopard but it occurred before the update.
Is there any way the wake up behavior can be stopped short of unplugging the drive? I could understand a delay if I actually selected the drive but not when I'm taking other actions that don't require the drive.
Thanks.

Adam, thanks for the suggestion. Finder Preferences wasn't the answer but it caused me to look closer at the Energy Saver preferences. I unchecked "Put hard disks to sleep when possible." I'm not thrilled about having to do that but I'll see how it works for a while. Would be nice if I could specify specific disks to sleep or not.

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The first thing we often do When we *Lose Windows 7 password* is asking a computer expert for help. However, it is only a moment for you *forgetting Windows 7 password* and it may take you several days to regain access to your system. From now on, don't worry about anything when you forgot windows 7 password. The article will give you some ideas to *reset Windows 7 password* with USB Drive.
*Section One: Reset Windows 7 password with Password reset disk.*
Most people usually only know how to create a new user with a strong password or change it. But they don't develop a habit to create a password reset disk for preventing lost password. It is a great and free gift from Microsoft. Click here to learn how to create password reset disk in windows 7 If you ready have a reset disk, please follow steps below:
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How can I boot Cisco1841 with USB Drive instead of CF?

Hello
I need to boot Cisco1841 with USB Drive instead of Compact Flash but I don't know what should I do.
I heard I need to format USB Drive with FAT and need to save IOS on the USB Drive.
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/modules/ps6247/prod_qas0900aecd80232483.html
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> {quote:title=Xardas wrote:}{quote}
> Hi TwinCat,
>
> I think so to and that's a really good decision.
>
> From my own experience I can say that my authorized service provider works pretty fast and the technicians are friendly guys.
>
> I hope everything can be clarified as fast as possible! :)
I hope that Russian service provider will be as honest as the European one and won't solder something out as a souvenir :)
They said, it will take approximately a week.
Serviceman said that L30 has no built-in crisis recovery routine.
So I wasted money by buying an USB floppy disk drive and risked to burn something in my laptop by frequent powering it on and off (and may be burnt, will see).
The lesson I learnt is never flash BIOS if everything works and if even flash then not from Windows (btw. I flashed successfully my Satellite A300 from Windows without any problems).
Phoenix makes its BIOSes since 2001 with a crisis recovery boot block, but Toshiba locks this feature in many laptops, I think, not without a reason. Service providers want money too :)

Help I itunes will not recognize my iphone or ipod. Trouble with USB driver, device not running in safe mode, and HDCP not supported.

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I recently upgraded my MacBook Air to OS X 10.9 (reformatted hard drive, installed system from scratch, updated with all the latest Apple updates). I pre-checked all my third party software to make sure it was 10.9 compatible before installing it after the system cleanup, so everything I’m running supposedly has been approved as safe for 10.9. But I’m seeing a problem formatting USB drives that I do not encounter when running under 10.8.
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Cheesenightmare wrote:
Thanks for that Well it is a few years old now and has served me well. I am happy enough to know it isn't something that i should expect - time for an upgrade I think!
Oh and yes, it is a Samson as you point out. Its been a great little mic while it lasted...
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Hi all,
I have an strange issue with an USB device, used to manage PCMCIA cards.
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Hi all,
I have an strange issue with an USB device, used to manage PCMCIA cards.
Running 'cfgadm' command, the OS (Solaris 10 Sparc) recognizes the USB device:
Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c2 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
usb0/1 usb-device connected configured ok
usb0/2 unknown empty unconfigured ok
But when I try to access the PCMCIA tokens with the client app, it returns errors like "card not found".
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Oct 1 16:58:51 FSS0X022 lunausb: [ID 429894 kern.notice] Luna USB Driver 2.3.0.1 Aug 12 2009 15:47:08
Oct 1 16:58:51 FSS0X022 lunausb: [ID 129115 kern.notice] parse_level set to dump everything
Oct 1 16:58:51 FSS0X022 lunausb: [ID 926692 kern.notice] attach: Disabled endpoint (ep3intr)
Oct 1 16:58:51 FSS0X022 lunausb: [ID 420010 kern.notice] init_power_mgmt enter
Oct 1 16:58:51 FSS0X022 lunausb: [ID 734669 kern.notice] initpower_mgmt: failure enabling remote wakeup
Oct 1 16:58:51 FSS0X022 lunausb: [ID 995346 kern.notice] initpower_mgmt: end
Oct 1 16:58:51 FSS0X022 lunausb: [ID 332559 kern.notice] attach: Could not initialize power mgmt
Oct 1 16:58:51 FSS0X022 usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 2.0 device (usb4b9,f200) operating at full speed (USB 1.x) on USB 1.10 root hub: device@1, lunausb0 at bus address 2
Oct 1 16:58:51 FSS0X022 usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] lunausb-lh7 000000000000
Oct 1 16:58:51 FSS0X022 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] lunausb0 is /pci@83,4000/usb@a/device@1
I have restarted the "/system/power:default" service and rebooted. I have tried to disable the service, too.
But the driver always show the message "Failure enabling remote wakeup/Could not initalize power mgmt", and the client application still shows the access error.
Can anyone help me, please.
Thanks and regards.

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I suspect it's possible to do what I want, but not via the "easy" route. I'm very new to OS X, so hoping there's some more advanced functionality I haven't found yet.
This is what I want to do:
I have a USB drive connected to a Mac Mini running Snow Leopard. I have two users setup - one admin, one normal. I want only the local admin account to be able to access the files on the USB drive. I want the admin account to share the contents via the local network with my (Vista) laptop (which is setup with the same username / password as the admin account).
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David

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Rather than join the AppleCare support community forum, what I actually wished to do was to send an email to apple with some suggestions on how to improve OS X Lion. That was, surprisingly, impossible to do. So I have wound up here.
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Riaz from Australia wrote:
Rather than join the AppleCare support community forum, what I actually wished to do was to send an email to apple with some suggestions on how to improve OS X Lion. That was, surprisingly, impossible to do. So I have wound up here.
Too late! You're in the community now!
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I guess you didn't read the agreement you signed carefully.

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