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

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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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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