FCP 5 and Tiger = do I need any utility to not spin-down my LaCie disks?

Before Tiger, I had a small utility that prevented my FW-disks not to spin down.
I run FCP 5, DVDSP4, SoundTrack Pro and some other apps on an iBook G4 and an G4 Dual.
After blowing the iBook disk, I have installed Tiger, and after each app install, I repair the disk permissions. Also after every software upgrade I repair the permission. Should I think of anything else to get a fresh clean system to start working in?
TIA

To force your drives to never sleep:
Launch the Terminal application (Applications>Utilities>Terminal) and type:
sudo pmset spindown x
type your password when it asks for it.
x=the number of minutes that you want till your drive spins down.
0 = never
More info on using pmset here:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pmset.1. html
And I found this here
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html
I hope that this helps.
And note that this is a more 'controlled' way of putting the hard disk to sleep than is possible in >system preferences>energy saver>sleep>
If you go that way, checked means 10 minutes and unchecked means 180 minutes (not never).
Good luck.
x

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