In my experience over 3 or 4 years, it is perfectly safe to eject/
dismount a firewire drive from the desktop and then shut the drive
down. Restart the drive any time you like. No need to power down the
system.
Just remember to eject/dismount the drive (if the drive is
partitioned, ejecting one volume ejects all of them) before turning
off power to the drive or removing cables.
I leave the fw drives powered up when shutting down the system for
short periods. When the system reboots, the drives mount. You can
reboot and then power on the fw drives, but there is no need to do it
this way.
On Feb 25, 2006, at 4:23 PM, david_elmo wrote:
(2) Can someone please remind me: can one just switch on and off a
firewire external in the middle of a session (it not being "the"
startup drive of course? Or does one need to switch it on first
before booting the main machine, and properly shutting down main
machine before turning off the power to the FW external? I don't
think the external drives wind down on shutting the main computer
down? Must check on this...
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