Re: Apple Disk Server Beta. Need testers.

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 5, 11:45 am, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>> Oh, one other thing I forgot to mention: one speedup that ADT client
>> does (but not ADTPro - too lazy so far) is it starts the drive motor a
>> little while before it is needed.  That avoids the spin-up delay once a
>> full buffer is ready to write and lets you start writing much more
>> quickly.  So, during inflate, if there's a point where you're
>> "almost-done," one loop left to go or whatever, hit the motoron switch.
> 
> I'll look into it.
> 
>> Surely, killing all apps would stop that from happening?  I didn't do it
>> last night, but I can start out by killing all-but-Safari.
> 
> Alerts happen without without the apps running.  I can disable all
> alerts with a single switch, but it is a different switch for mail.

You can (temporarily) switch to "pull" email, so that no alerts will occur.


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