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Eric Johnson  
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 More options Jul 27 2004, 4:46 am
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.portables, uk.comp.sys.mac
From: Eric Johnson <er...@xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:46:53 +0200
Local: Tues, Jul 27 2004 4:46 am
Subject: Re: PB: To shutdown or not to shutdown?
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On 25-07-2004 22:13, in article
1ghi07x.wwcm841fgj36uN%pd.n...@dsl.pipex.invalid, "PeterD"

<pd.n...@dsl.pipex.invalid> wrote:
> John Biltz <biltzj...@cox.net> wrote:

>> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 03:30:12 -0700, PeterD wrote
>> (in article <1ghh7xo.wiljej1tkczpcN%pd.n...@dsl.pipex.invalid>):

>>> John Biltz <biltzj...@cox.net> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> If you have an external hard drive hooked up pretty much all the time
>>>> it is easier to just shut it down. If you sleep it while it is
>>>> connected then you are going to have to shut it down anyway to get the
>>>> drive back so your going to have to eject the drive and hook it back
>>>> up.

>>> I have a Powerbook with external hard drives hooked up all the time. I
>>> sleep the PB, wake it up and everything is there. I've never lost the
>>> drive from sleeping. It sounds like some part of your setup is borked.

>> Might be because I'm running it from a USB adaptor in my card slot. But
>> if I forget I get a warning message about improperly disconnecting a
>> drive and its gone until I reboot.

> Ah. USB, waddya expect. USB is a flakey beast.
> USB - the new SCSI.

Its my experience that FireWire is much more reliable than usb.

USB devices often stop being recognized as being on the bus, and I have seen
this happen for too long on too many computers with -every- device for my
experienced not to be generalized.

ej


 
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