This is a fresh install of Win2k, so there aren't many things installed on it. This is acting as my server, which runs 24hrs/day, but there could be periods of several days where data on the disks is not accessed, which is why I want to power management to work.
My system is a CII 600@900 on an Intel MP440BX motherboard with an MSI 6905 slot1 adapter, 320MB ram, a Maxtor 7.5G 7200 rpm HD as the boot drive with the OS & progs, & two WD 45G 5400rpm drives on a promise Ultra66 converted to a Fasttrak66 for Raid0 (striping), used as a shared network data drive. All drives using NTFS. I also have two NICs (it's also acting as a router with windows ICS), one Intel pro 100+, and one dlink dfe530tx+. The only other item (besides the G400) is a generic pci soundcard (I installed this last, and had the problem before I installed it).
After I installed win2k over win98 (but as a fresh install, not as an upgrade), I was trying to get the power down to work, and set the idle time for power down to 3 minutes. The raid drives would power down, but a minute or less afterwards they would spin back up as if something was trying to access them. I never saw the Maxtor power down. I fdisked the whole system & did a fresh NTFS format, & re-installed win2k (& service pack 1 & all updates except the fluff like IE5.5, mediaplayer 7, etc.). Now I can't even get the raid drives to power down at all, much less the Maxtor. I read that the earlier versions of Promise's Fasttrak drivers didn't support power down, but that was supposed to be resolved with the newer drivers (all the drivers for everything I have are the newest I can find). Something appears to be accessing these drives & keeping them open. My MB appears to be ACPI compliant, because Win2k installs all the ACPI stuff, and I even have the hibernate option (but haven't activated it, as I have no need for it). If I set the machine to go to standby after 1 minute, that works as long as no network computers are logged on to the drives on the server, but I don't want the whole server to go into standby, just the HD's. They won't power down regardless of the status of networked computers, or anything else I try. Something on the server appears to be keeping my drives open, but I can't identify what it is. Anyone here using HD spindown on Win2k successfully?
Thanks!
My system is a CII 600@900 on an Intel MP440BX motherboard with an MSI 6905 slot1 adapter, 320MB ram, a Maxtor 7.5G 7200 rpm HD as the boot drive with the OS & progs, & two WD 45G 5400rpm drives on a promise Ultra66 converted to a Fasttrak66 for Raid0 (striping), used as a shared network data drive. All drives using NTFS. I also have two NICs (it's also acting as a router with windows ICS), one Intel pro 100+, and one dlink dfe530tx+. The only other item (besides the G400) is a generic pci soundcard (I installed this last, and had the problem before I installed it).
After I installed win2k over win98 (but as a fresh install, not as an upgrade), I was trying to get the power down to work, and set the idle time for power down to 3 minutes. The raid drives would power down, but a minute or less afterwards they would spin back up as if something was trying to access them. I never saw the Maxtor power down. I fdisked the whole system & did a fresh NTFS format, & re-installed win2k (& service pack 1 & all updates except the fluff like IE5.5, mediaplayer 7, etc.). Now I can't even get the raid drives to power down at all, much less the Maxtor. I read that the earlier versions of Promise's Fasttrak drivers didn't support power down, but that was supposed to be resolved with the newer drivers (all the drivers for everything I have are the newest I can find). Something appears to be accessing these drives & keeping them open. My MB appears to be ACPI compliant, because Win2k installs all the ACPI stuff, and I even have the hibernate option (but haven't activated it, as I have no need for it). If I set the machine to go to standby after 1 minute, that works as long as no network computers are logged on to the drives on the server, but I don't want the whole server to go into standby, just the HD's. They won't power down regardless of the status of networked computers, or anything else I try. Something on the server appears to be keeping my drives open, but I can't identify what it is. Anyone here using HD spindown on Win2k successfully?
Thanks!
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