Hard Disk Sleep Issue

Does anyone else notice their Hard Disks trying to sleep even though the "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" box is unchecked in the Energy Saver preference pane? I keep hearing drives inside my Mac Pro spooling down, then normally spooling up again 30 seconds later. I've tried restoring the prefs to default and an SMC reset with no luck. Thanks..

Hi Mate ! I am experiencing the same problem with my MacPro - did search a lot of discussions - but didn´t get any helpful answer. I switched off all sleep/energy saver modes. Did all system resets, even all onyx scripts - nothing helped. From time to time - specially when working with the Mac Pro Apps - the second internal diskdrive falls to sleep and needs about 20 to 30 sec. to reactivate. I can switch between programs at that time, but all I see is the rainbow wheel. Does anyone know a workaround for that ? It would be very much appreciated

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Hard Drive Sleep Issue

I´ve got one problem with my Mac Pro running a fresh tiger installation. My internal hard drives go to sleep although i´ve unchecked the "enable hard drive sleep" checkbox in the energysaver prefpane. i am using 4 internal hds and after a while of one or more being inactive i can hear them spinnig up upon reactivation (doubleclick) and there is a certain delay in responsiveness (e.g. windows opening up...). Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

There is a utility named "spindown fix" that can resolve the issue of HD's not staying up even after you've unchecked "put hard disk(s) to sleep when possible." Apparently that doesn't actually do anything
Normally, I let my drives spin down to conserver energy and keep everything cooler, including external FW drives. But sometimes when I'm using Final Cut Pro, I don't want the delay while I await a spin up. So I uncheck "HD sleep" in energy saver and then run Spindown Fix. It seems to work.
Search the web for "spindown fix."
(edit): I did some more research, and at least in 10.4.11, if you have the system sleep other than "never" and don't check the HD sleep option in energy saver, the HD sleep doesn't becomre "never" but rather 180 minutes. You can verify this for your system by using the plist editor (part of development tools package delivered with 10.4) and examining libarary/preferences/systemconfiguration/com.apple.powermangement/plist
In the AC power custom profile, you'll find the parameter Disk Sleep Time; you can examine how it varies based on your energy saver settings. Some say to set it to zero to prevent spin down form occurring every; I would not necessarily recommend that if 180 minutes is long enough for your.
Eddie O
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External Hard Disks Sleep after 10.8.5 update

After installing the latest Apple update to Mtn Lion, my external disks sleep and cannot be awakened via remote access. Nothing changed except the update.
It happened at work as well as on my home network.

I am on a Mac Pro 2.8 (3.1) 2008 model. 12 Gb ram and a radeon 5870. This supplemental update has been pretty horrible. I have had the following issues: messed up sleep, random wake ups, and one hard crash. I have also had the long sleep delay where the fans crank up and it takes forever to sleep...only a restart cures this, which is pretty useless. The mach file showing but that was fixed with a terminal command. Lost video chat icon on iMessage for a while but that has now mysteriously returned. The last annoying bug I have suffered with is what seems like horribly reduced audio quality out of the Apple LED 24 inch cinema display speakers. It sounds like 22kz mono both input and output.
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Hard disk partition issue and space issue

Hello i was trying to do a partition on my hard disk on my macbook pro retina. Wen i go to disk utility and try it says i need to repair the disk. I used command r in reboot and repaired but still having issues. When i look at space i get two different space available on macintosh HD. Here are the pictures you will see the space available is different depending what i choose. I am confused. Any help is appreciated. Here are the pics.

When you boot using Cmd-R, you're booting from a hidden Recovery Partition. That partition is using part of the space that is the size difference you're seeing between the Media line (upper picture) and the boot partition line. You can turn on the Debug Menu which shows the extra partitions using these directions.
I'm not sure but I suspect the issue may be that your boot partition is encrypted.

Safe to turn off hard disk sleep?

i have a powermac g4 with mirror drive doors. i've been having occasional trouble waking from sleep. i turned off sleep mode for the computer, and unchecked "put the hard disk to sleep when possible". is this safe for my computer, or will it harm the hard disk?

If I had a nickel for every "sleep" related question I wouldn't have to work for a living.
Your hard drives are, as David says, fully capable of running all the time. Some swear that it is better for the drives. My belief is that this comes from the experience of older hard drives which were best left on all the time. Newer drives are designed to power down as required by the EnergyStar mandates. So they can run or sleep and it really shouldn't matter.
What does matter is the not waking from sleep. If by that you mean you had to use the power button to shut down completely and then restart your computer acutally crashed. If/when this happens you should do one of the following upon or before attempting to restart
1) Boot single user and run fsck
2) Boot from the install disk and run Disk Utility from the cd/dvd
3) Hold down the shift key for a Safe Boot which also runs fsck before booting fully
The chances are that the directory was ok when the computer entered sleep and the journal of the hard drived was up to date. But if not then repeated hard reboots will accumulate directory errors which will mess things up.

MacBook Pro Retina and Hard Disk Sleep

I have noticed in the Energy Saver in the System Preferences section, that their is a Put Hard Disk to sleep when possible, but I know that my laptop is an SSD and not a hard drive. Is this something I should uncheck or leave checked?
Thanks!

You can leave it as it is now. That option also applies to the SSD, although you see hard disks

HARD DISK DRIVER ISSUES WHILE INSTALLING WINDOWS 8

I am trying to install windows 8 on my PC, but it is asking for hard drive drivers. I have installed windows 8 before with no issues on the same PC with same configuration, but now I am facing these driver issues. Currently I am running Win7 as i cannot
reinstall Win8.
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Hi,
I doubt that the hard drive is either a SATA drive or in a RAID setup, you might need to install RAID controller drivers or SATA driver during the installation.
I also suggest you refer to the following link and check if it can give some hints.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/6e278d52-1e69-4bca-8beb-f0424eed5891/installation-problem-windows-installer-cannot-find-hard-disk-drivers?forum=w7itproinstall
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937251
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Adjusting Hard Disk Sleep?

Is there a way to adjust the default time when I've enabled "put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible"? The default time seems very short to me, and would love to extend it to a half hour or so before they go to sleep.
Thanks!

yes, it's possible. install TextWrangler and open the file /library/preferences/systemconfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist in textWrangler. change the entry for Disk Sleep Timer from 10 to 30 and save. you'll have to provide your admin password. then restart and the disk sleep timer will be set to 30 minutes. you can adjust that number to whatever you want of course.

Hard drive disconnects itself improperly-Hard disk sleep?

Hello,
I have recently bought a 2011 Macbook Pro and I am facing a problem with an external Verbatim LCD hard drive.
It seems like when the drive is inactive for 10 minutes or so, it gets disconnected improperly, I get an error message and the drive disappears from the system until I unplug it and plug it back in.
Also I have noticed that when the disk is in use , it does not disconnect. I tried leaving playing a movie to see what will happen and everything was ok. When I stopped the movie and left the Macbook Pro it disconnected itself after a while.
I know this may be bacause of the option in the Power Saver "Put hard disks to sleep if possible".
So, I have decided to untick this option and up to now everything seems fine again.
I just wonder, should I leave this option on or off? And if this option is there, why does it cause such a serious problem like disconnecting a hard drive?
This certainly should not be happening!
I would appreciate any information on that.
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17" MBP 500GB 7200RPM Hard Disk - Performance Issues

Am I the only 17" MBP user that is having performance issues, along with the click+beep?
My Hard Disk performs terribly:
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Hard disk partition issue

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I purchased Lenovo G580 one month before. The hard disk size is 750GB.The “C” itself 650GB. I tried to do the partition of250GB from Local disk C. After partition it shows unallocated space. But after that I could not make format for that unallocated Partition. During partitioning a pop up window shows that “The operation you selected will convert the selected basic disc to dynamic disc. If you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to continue?”.
If I press “yes” the popup window show that “Dynamic disks are not supported by this operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters”.Please check and give me a solution. I am using Windows 7 Home premium . here i attached the photos.
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Shameer H
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It may be formatted in some Windows format that Macs cannot use. If there’s nothing on the drive that you want to save, reformat it with a Mac-friendly format. http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-format-your-macs-hard-drive--mac- 53986

IMovie rendering hard disk space issue

Hi,
I have a 2.33GHz Mac Book Pro and a seagate 500GB firewire drive. All my imported video clips are located on the external drive. I have created the project on the external drive as well. My inbuilt hard disk is loaded up with music snaps and other office data.. and i have successfully created a imovie project. i have about 20 GB of free space and the project is 2.5 hours long. i am not able to render the movie and send it to iDVD as my hard disk runs out of space. is there any way that the rendering can be done on the external drive as well?

Karthik Nayak wrote:
.. is there any way that the rendering can be done on the external drive as well?
no.
temp-files are always stored on the same drive/partition where the OS-in-use is located.
you could install a MacOs on your ext. HDD and launch from there..
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Serious hard disk space issue (9.2 on XP Professional, 56 GB not enough)

Hello,
I installed Oracle 9.2.0.1.0 on HP Pavilion running Windows XP Professional (Pentium 4).
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Space before starting Installation: 56.8 GB
Universal Installer indicated Enterprise Edition needs 2.86 GB and I selected General purpose database.
Universal Installer in summary before starting installation shows:
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Within couple of hours hard disk space dropped to 12 GB
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After uninstall Oracle and deleting Oracle home space is 56.5
Am I doing some thing wrong?
Earlier I tried the same on XP home edition and within couple of hours I ran out of space on same computer after installing Oracle 9.2
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Hello,
You were right HTTP was the problem. It keeps writing to
error_log file in Oracle\ora92\Apache\Apache\logs folder till hard disk is full.
First few lines from this log file and then rest of the file is filled with same line(separated with ===) is given here,
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:08 2003] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:08 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" started (pid 2400)
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:08 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" (pid 2400) terminated with exit with status '3373064'
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:13 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" restarted (pid 1716)
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:14 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" (pid 1716) terminated with exit with status '3373064'
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:18 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" restarted (pid 2600)
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:18 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" (pid 2600) terminated with exit with status '3373064'
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:23 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" restarted (pid 2508)
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:23 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" (pid 2508) terminated with exit with status '3373064'
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:28 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" restarted (pid 2864)
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:28 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" (pid 2864) terminated with exit with status '3373064'
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:33 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" restarted (pid 3268)
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:33 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" (pid 3268) terminated with exit with status '3373064'
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:33 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: c:/oracle/ora92/apache/apache/htdocs/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:33 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: c:/oracle/ora92/apache/apache/htdocs/msoffice/cltreq.asp
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[Sat Feb 22 15:54:38 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" (pid 1660) terminated with exit with status '3373064'
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:43 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" restarted (pid 2432)
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:43 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" (pid 2432) terminated with exit with status '3373064'
===
[Sat Feb 22 15:55:03 2003] [warn] FastCGI: server "c:/oracle/ora92/bin/isqlplus" can't be restarted:exceeded max restarts
===
How to fix this? I tried to read about HTTP server but unable to figure out the proble.
ALl help will really be appreciated.
One more thing, path mentioned in file does not exist message, folder vtibin and msoffice does not exist.
Is this IE 6.o problem?
File does not exist: c:/oracle/ora92/apache/apache/htdocs/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll
[Sat Feb 22 15:54:33 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: c:/oracle/ora92/apache/apache/htdocs/msoffice/cltreq.asp
Ganesh

Power on and hard disk password issue with rescue and recovery ?

I have set a power on and hard disk password to prevent any unauthorized user to boot the computer and thats works fine but the problem is that it can be bypassed very easily by pressing the THINKVANTAGE blue button and going through the initial screen of the rescovery process.
When you reach the main screen of the recovery process just press on "restart system" and on the next boot up you won't be asked for a password and it will boot into Windows. Is there any way to prevent a user to initiate a rescue and recovery to bypass the password or even better a patch that will trigger the password screen as soon as the blue THINKVANTAGE button is pressed ?

I just recently discovered this problem as well.
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External hard drive sleep issue

My external drive contains my share folder for DC++.
If I leave my computer on when I'm gone, my DC++ shows my share as 0 after a while.
The hard drive seems to unmount after a while, maybe because the enclose sleeps the drive after a while.
Is there any way to fix this?

hdparm cannot read or set anything, a communication error always occurs.
Also dmesg records some errors on the moment I try to read something from drive and it goes off (always after some period of inactivity) and also logs when it's then detected (some seconds after) and mounted correctly.
EDIT: dmesg output
usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 41
sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 163055695
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sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
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