i have a maxtor one touch 4plus. when i try to open parallels - the drive doesn't spin up - rendering the mac mini useless. the not responding on parlles locks the system to slower than a crawl. if i open parallels during startup and log in - its fine. but then the drive spins down and clicking on anything doesn't spin up the drive. i've found a work around - i right click on a windows file - get the spinning ball - and ten seconds later the drive spins. but no double clicking or anything normal wakes the drives. by the way these stupid drives spin down almost every ten seconds if there isn't constant activity. oy.
If it doesn't spin on, it is probably a hardware issue, not software, Parallels spins up as needed on all the many machines I have seen running it. Could it be a memory issue perhaps?
i have 2gigs of memory on the mac mini. its these maxtor/seagate external drives. they spin down sometimes in under fifteen seconds. the energy saver settings don't work in mac and the maxtor manager windows software has a 'never' setting but it doesn't seem to fix my issue. i understand its not parallels fault i was just looking to see if someone else had a solution to this.
Just a quick question: what does this have to do with Parallels? There seems to be a fix for that can be done under linux (maybe Mac also) in the comments in this article: http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005886 I don't have one so I can't try it.
