Hi,
I have an external FW drive connected to one of my workstations. I seldom use the drive.
Yet, whenever the machine is booted, the FW drive spins up. If I remember, I then manually spin it down.
Drive is not receiving *power* from the interface so the spinup is just the result of the PC telling it to spin up.
Is there something *in* the drive that I can "switch" to prevent this from happening? I.e., the equivalent of unplugging the 1394 cable (w/o unplugging it, of course)?
Or, perhaps just switching the power to the external enclosure (*in* the enclosure) and hoping the I/F doesn't also steal power from the FW itself? (which might potentially lead to an error being signaled when the drive fails to spin up as expected)
Thx,
--don