Re: External HD polling?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: External HD polling?
Date	2015-08-30 06:04 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<d4fknvF9tp3U2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<1m9ylfl.1j6jymb1v9elo6N%henry999@eircom.net>

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On 2015-08-30, Henry <henry999@eircom.net> wrote:
> I'm running the latest Yosemite on my late '14 5K iMac. I've got a 2 TB
> external USB 3 with one large partition for Time Machine and one small
> partition with a plain vanilla system, also 10.10.5, for (very rare)
> alternative boot-up purposes.
>
> The external drive is audible; not problematically so but you hear it
> when it spins up. What I would like to know is _why_ it spins up.
>
> Even when the iMac is booted 'normally' from its internal SSD, there are
> frequent times, in-between and unrelated-to any Time Machine cycles,
> when the external HD comes to life.
>
> Is there anything I can look at in Console (or ???) that will tell me
> what is causing this?

Spotlight is probably indexing the volume.

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External HD polling? henry999@eircom.net (Henry) - 2015-08-30 09:00 +0300
  Re: External HD polling? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-30 06:04 +0000
    Re: External HD polling? The Translucent Amoebae <thetranslucentamoebae@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 12:14 -0700
      Re: External HD polling? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-09-08 17:03 -0400
        Re: External HD polling? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-08 17:07 -0400
          Re: External HD polling? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-08 21:32 +0000

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