Re: Focus drive: to spin down or not to spin down?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Ludowick writes ...
> 
> Harry Protagonist, asking:
> 
> My Focus hard drive came from Alltech set not to spin down after long periods
> of inactivity.  Is this bad or good?  I've had it for a few years, and have had
> no problems with it, but is this situation bad for the long-term health of the
> card?
>

     This is the way we run the (80MB) Focus drive in our GS. It's
worked fine for years, including many all-night sessions.    

 
> Also, are there DIP-switches on the card I could set so it would spin down, and
> what are the settings and their meanings?
>
 ....

     As fas as I know, there are no DIP switches on the Focus card the
user is supposed to mess with.

     The Focus time-out period is normally set via the Focus CDEV (a
"control panel" accessed via clicking on the Apple symbol on the left
side of the GS/OS menu bar). "Time-out" is the time the drive needs to
be idle before it will spin down. The Focus CDEV used to have a minor
error: most to the time-out numbers shown were twice the actual time-out
period used. 




Rubywand