Setting Disk Sleep Timers problems with FCP4.5?

Still experiencing trouble when Printing-To-Tape projects that are over 30 min in length. It usually stops at around 26 minutes. I head something about Disk Sleep Timers. I checked my Mac under About This Mac>More Info>Power...I found that my Disk Sleep Timer is set to 10 minutes and System Sleep Timer is set to 180 minutes. Could this be the problem? Should I reset my Disk Sleep Timer to a longer time? If so, how can I do this?
Also, other mentioned something about Journaling on the disks? What is that? Should they be on or off? How can I check. Please help.

Luis,
You will want to set your sleep to never, screen savers to None, and disk spindown to never.
This is a way to set the disks to never:
In Terminal type:
sudo pmset spindown x
then type your pass word
x=the number of minutes that you want till your drive spins down.
0 is 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
Do a command f and search for "pmset" that is where i first found this.
Note that this is a more 'controlled' way of Putting the hard disk to sleep than possible in
system preferences>energy saver>sleep>Put the hard disk to sleep when possible
In that situation, checked means x=10 and unchecked means, not 0 but 180 minutes.
Also, there are some utilities with a graphical interface that will do this as well.
Good luck.
x

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