2009/2/7 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>

Danis Petkakis wrote:
> you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep?
> because it is mounted it cannot be put to sleep?
>

If you have a journalized file system, you may have to. Every time it
updates the journal it will spin the drive back up. I think some of the
gurus need to know what file system you are using and then go from
there. Spinning down a drive can be done but some situations won't
allow that to happen to well.

Dale

:-) :-)