How to keep second internal SATA drive from spinning down?

[Moof1904]

I installed a scratch drive in my DP2.5 G5 and during periods of inactivity, the drive spins down. It's not an agonizing annoyance, but it's a bit annoying to return to the computer launch FCP or Photoshop and have to sit there for a second while the scratch drive spins up.

I've looked in the disk tools utility and can't seem to find a way to address this. Is it a jumper issue on the drive? Is it a firmware issue on the drive?

The drive is a Seagate
Capacity: 186.31 GB
Model: ST3200822AS
Revision: 3.01

 

[Danksi]

I've looked in the disk tools utility and can't seem to find a way to address this. Is it a jumper issue on the drive? Is it a firmware issue on the drive?

In the Power/Energy Settings there's an option to 'spin disk down during inactivity - is this selected?

 

[funkychunkz]

It's not a bug, but rather a system default. In the energy saver preference pane uncheck 'Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible.' That applies to panther, but should be featured in tiger aswell, if not a timer for each drive. I remember hearing of a third party app that enabled you to time the spindown for each internal drive, if that is what you had in mind.

 

[trainguy77]

Your hard drives will last longer if you let them spin down when not in use.