Is there a way of excluding Time Machine from drives list?

Every time I save a file or an application scans the drives on my iMac, the Time Machine drive is included.
But because the HDs in the external drive (Iomega) go to sleep between Time Machine back ups, they have to spin up (2 HDs in a RAID setup, so both have to spin up) before the application can go on. That takes something between 5 and 10s every time.
Is there a way of excluding the TM drive from the normal drives list? So that it's invisible to applications?
Cheers,
Marco

if it is spotlight that i s scanning your drives, add the time machine drive to the privacy area in system prefs:spotlight:privacy. either drag the drive to the window or click the + buttonon bottom right.

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