My only problem with XPF... |
September, 27, 2003 9:26 PM |
zorvix |
The only other feature I need out of XPF is HD sleeping... As it is now, on my POwermac 7300, the HD sleeping, system sleeping (I don't really care about this), sound (it works good enough), and floppy drive are all that don't work... But, I use external speakers with their own volume, I never use a floppy, and OS X is not suppose to sleep... But, with the computer on near 24/7, the HDs make a lot of noise... and I'm sure it's not good for them. Does anyone know if this is going to be working anytime soon? Also, WRT floppys, while I don't really use them, I would like for the drive to at least work... why can't the linux floppy driver be ported over? Other than that, XPF is probably the coolest, most useful piece of software I have ever bought... this computer is next to useless in OS 9... |
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RE: My only problem with XPF... |
September, 30, 2003 11:18 AM |
lyonsdj88 |
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There is a MKLinux Floppy Driver Port to OS X. It is slow but it works. |
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RE: My only problem with XPF... |
September, 29, 2003 2:35 PM |
marcush |
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Also, you can check what the power manager is actually set at. If you open the terminal type in pmset. To find out the settings to use for pmset type: man pmset. Manually setting the disksleep individual might cause it to kick in. Otherwise you could try to find out which plist file controls power management and disk sleep and delete that. |
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RE: My only problem with XPF... |
September, 29, 2003 2:06 AM |
paul_findley |
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I can't remember when HD sleep started working, but it works fine now with 10.2.6, ATT U2LD scsi controller (firmware 1.5), and the IBM and WD LVD drives hooked to it (not using MB scsi anymore for HD). Mac 7500. I also noticed that it is possible to "eject" a drive volume that is not on the same HD as my boot volume, and that immediately puts that drive to sleep (unmounting all volumes on it). Just right-click on a volume and choose "eject". To remount any volume on that drive, you have to run Disk Utility (or know the right unix command for the terminal). That really helps keep the noise and heat down, and I rarely use anything on those spare drives. |
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RE: My only problem with XPF... |
September, 28, 2003 6:25 PM |
zorvix |
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Hmm... I'm using the most recent version of OS X, and my drives don't sleep... Does it matter, though, that they are the stock internal SCSI drives? |
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RE: My only problem with XPF... |
September, 28, 2003 8:03 AM |
naturist |
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The hard drive sleep issue is not XPF related, either. It was a bug in early versions of OS X that unfortunately manifested itself with particular cruelty on Old World machines. But the good news is that it seems to be fixed on more recent versions. I am using a 7500 with Jaguar, and the drives seem to sleep fine. Sometimes a bit too fine: I have discovered that if I'm burning a DVD, I need to shut off sleep, or the dvd burn fails, because the things go to sleep in the middle of the burn. But otherwise, the energy saver panel works as advertised. I'm not sure where the fix came in, but if you use recent versions of OS X, you should be ok. |
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