TITLE
    Power Macintosh 8600: Hard Disk Spins Up During Sleep
Article ID:
Created:
Modified: 		30515
4/27/98
4/27/98
TOPIC

    I have a Power Macintosh 8600 running Mac OS 8.0 or Mac OS 8.1 and when I choose sleep from the Special menu, the machine spins down the hard disk waits a second or two, turns off the display, and spins the hard disk up again.

    I would expect the hard disk to not spin up until I press a key on the keyboard. Why is this happening?

DISCUSSION

    This issue is specific to the 8600 series and only occurs with Mac OS 8.0 and Mac OS 8.1. Apple is investigating a solution. If you remove the Energy Saver extension, when sleep is chosen the disk will spin down, and only when a key is pressed will it spin up again.

    However, you will not be able to use the scheduled Sleep/Startup/Shut Down features without the extension. Basically, you will need to decide if immediate sleep with hard drive spin down is more important than the scheduled options.

Document Information
Product Area: Computers
Category: Power Macintosh
Sub Category: Power Macintosh 8600

Copyright © 2000 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.