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Authored by: robh on Jan 02, '02 10:55:41AM

if you want to keep a drive awake (not that I do), couldn't you just use his approach of copying a frequently changing and small file onto the drive ?.
Can't that be done with cron ?



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Authored by: Embro on Jan 02, '02 12:27:45PM

I'm sure that would work but this app is still early so I thought they might want some suggestions.

I did find by running two copies of the app it works.



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Authored by: aardvarko on Jan 06, '02 11:24:03PM

I'd think it more than likely that this file, being small and frequently accessed, would reside within OS X's disk cache.

Does X have an hdparm command? If so, that'd let you modify the HDD timeout.



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