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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc, comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: External HD polling? |
| Date | 30 Aug 2015 06:04:47 GMT |
| Organization | People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates |
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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. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR
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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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