re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive Monday, January 8, 2007 at 4:23 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Anonymouse (412 messages posted) Actually, I did ask Maxtor...but they misunderstood me. They just repeated one of their FAQs, viz. safely shutting down an external drive, and that's not what I meant. Oh well; thanks anyway. Come to think of it, the drive has its own power supply - I wonder if a drive which gets its power directly from the PC would shut down? On Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 9:26 am, C K wrote: >To power down, no.. I have yet to see an external that powers down. They will spin >the drive down after a certian period of inactivity, but many seem to need a power >cycle to restart. I have a network disk that will spin down and back up again after >a certian period of inactivity but others that I own will not restart properly. >Power saving is controlled in the firmware of the external drive IME.. > >Maxtor might be able to answer the question for you, but I'm sure they will tell >you the same thing... > > > Written in response to: re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (C K: Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 9:26 am) Responses to this message: re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (C K: Monday, January 8, 2007 at 7:30 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Forcing shutdown on an external drive (Anonymouse: Sun, Jan 7, 2007, 8:22 am) re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (C K: Sun, Jan 7, 2007, 9:26 am) re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (Anonymouse: Mon, Jan 8, 2007, 4:23 am) re: Forcing shutdown on an external drive (C K: Mon, Jan 8, 2007, 7:30 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum