Re: External hard drive hooked to a slot loading imac ????

[Jonathan Kaplan <jonathan0206@cfl.rr.com>]

 Sorry about that I didn' t know I am new to this                              
In article <GdTQc.21346$wC3.19307@okepread07>, Scott Alfter
<salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org> wrote:

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> In article <060820041724472481%jonathan0206@cfl.rr.com>,
> Jonathan Kaplan  <jonathan0206@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> >I have an imac dv edition...
> 
> This is the first of what will probably be several posts that'll tell you
> you're in the wrong newsgroup.  comp.sys.apple2 is an Apple II newsgroup,
> not a Mac newsgroup; you would do well to direct future questions about your
> iMac to one of the comp.sys.mac.* newsgroups.
> 
> That said, if a FireWire or USB drive enclosure passes the relevant commands
> through to the drive, I would think it'd work the same way as if you had the
> drive connected directly to an IDE controller.  Drive enclosures tend to be
> machine- and OS-independent, so if the enclosure supports it and you have
> the appropriate settings enabled, the drive should spin down.  For a
> Mac-specific answer, you would want to ask somebody in one of the
> aforementioned comp.sys.mac.* newsgroups.
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