SCSI drive spinning down?? :(

[snoturtle]

Hi
for some reason my SCSI drives keep spinning down after I don't use the computer for awhile.
I checked in the control panel under power options and it is set to never turn off drives.
I am running win 2k on a abit vp6 with a tekram u160 card with 4 36 gig atlas 10kII drives and 1 9 gig atlas V
as well as a few burners 🙂

Any help would be great 🙂

 

[bruincal]

did you check your bios and diable power saving features for the hard drives?

 

[mee987]

your problem is that you are spoiled rotten with all those hdd's

anyway, try to tell us what you have and havent tried... disable all power saving stuff in bios and windows first, i hope you have tried that already
might also wanna check the scsi bios options, my adaptec cards dont have it but yours may have something about power saving there

 

[snoturtle]

Hi
I know I have too much time and money 🙂
hehe
I did already check all the windows as well as the bios for the MB and the SCSI card
they were already set to not powersave
I can't think of what else to try?????

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Verify that there isn't a spin-down jumper on the drives
Verify that there isn't a piece of software that is telling the drives to spin down.

Windows doesn't natively support spinning down SCSI (I looked, didn't find anything), but there is third party software to do that.

 

[snoturtle]

Hi
I can't find anything on the maxtor site about a jumper to spin them down after use
just a few at startup which aren't set
the drives even do this on a fresh install of 2k
🙁