Launch Services (or whomever) does not let sleeping disks lie...
Launch Services (or whomever) does not let sleeping disks lie...
- Subject: Launch Services (or whomever) does not let sleeping disks lie...
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:54:52 +0100
Hello,
forgive please I am asking here, but I very strongly suspect the
answer (if any) would need some level of programming (presumably
rather hacking) anyway...
The problem is that, if there are extra disks which are sleeping due
to the "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" setting, Finder
(when creating context menus) and Open/Save panels (when activated)
very often wakes them -- without a real need, in other words, without
the user navigating to them explicitly.
That is pretty bad, for
- the disks are noisy (which is also the primary cause I switch "Put
the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" on);
- wainting while they are waking causes a very inconvenient delay
with the infamous rainbow disc spinning and spinning.
I would, quite naturally, consider waking normal whenever one
navigates to the disks: happens seldom, since I use them for backing
up my work or to access archives say once a few hours.
Alas, seems Launch Services or some similar busybody God knows why
reads them without a good reason (since, as said above, it is very
often when Open Panels or context menus are open, I suspect some
folders are being explicitly re-scanned lest they changed while
nobody was looking, meaning the person who wrote the damned code
never heard of the Kernel Authorization notifications :))
Happens anybody know how to prevent this?
- switching "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" is not an
option--the disks are noisy;
- unmounting them and re-mounting only when needed would be *very*
inconvenient;
- trashing them and buying some more silent ones would be nice, but I
kind of know better what to do with my money at the moment :)
Thanks,
---
Ondra Čada
OCSoftware: email@hidden http://www.ocs.cz
private email@hidden http://www.ocs.cz/oc
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