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From: aRKay on 3 Dec 2009 12:07
In article <2009120210202216807-not(a)dotcom>,
thepixelfreak <not(a)dot.com> wrote:

> On 2009-12-01 14:23:09 -0800, aRKay <arkay(a)nospam.qsl.net> said:
>
> > In article <doug-02D35E.20073629112009(a)news-40.giganews.com>,
> > Doug Jantzer <doug(a)gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone have a suggestion on fixing it.
> >
> > Use your OS X Disk Utility to erase the the whole Seagate mess
> > and format it as a Mac drive with the GUID Partition Table.
> >
> > Let the Mac control the sleep.
>
> How a drive is formatted has nothing to do with the drives controller
> firmware setting that tells it to go to sleep after a period of no
> read/write/seek activity.

Thanks for the info.... I will avoid the FreeAgent. I am used to an
older external case with a generic controller. Too bad you can't get
past the traffic cop
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