waiting for disk to spin up

[Jerry]

Hutch,

If you look in your Energy System Preference that you can deselect so  
that your Hard Drive never spins down. (Bottom left is memory serves  
correctly...)

Jp

On Jan 11, 2006, at 9:58 PM, Hutch wrote:

> Hey all!
>
> I've got X4X running on an external drive that spins down when  
> inactive. This means that when I walk past a motion sensor, the  
> associated light won't come on until after the drive spins up. I  
> don't know if it matters, but I've put the "turnon" statement near  
> the top of the script, before any "log" or "speak" statements.
>
> Question 1:
> Is there something I can do (short of a ram drive) to have the  
> script loaded in memory so that it will execute before the drive  
> spins up?
>
> Question 2:
> If I don't leave the log window open will a script execute with the  
> drive at rest?
>
> Question 3:
> Is anybody out there running X4X on a ram drive? Any advantages?
>
> Question 4:
> If I want to move X4X off of my external drive, and onto the  
> internal drive, can I just copy the whole folder over? Are there  
> any paths that need to be changed?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Hutch
>
>