Menathor Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 There are one or two threads out there from people who have SATA DVD drives which work perfectly for a while, then stop responding until a restart, after which they start working again. I've been pulling my hair with this one - finally realised it was only happening after the computer had been left alone for a while. This made me think it was a power saving thing - so I disabled "put HDDs to sleep when possibe" in System Preferences. SEEMS to have done the trick - I figure OSX can't tell the diff between SATA HDDS and DVD drives, so it tries to send anything on the SATA bus to sleep. Once your DVD drives are asleep - kiss them goodbye until reboot. Post here if it fixes your problem too..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75421-fix-if-your-sata-dvd-drive-stops-responding-after-a-while/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
badge Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 That does identify the problem, though i would rather temporarily lose my dvd drive than run all three of my sata hard drives constantly. Running hard drives unnecessarily FTL. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75421-fix-if-your-sata-dvd-drive-stops-responding-after-a-while/#findComment-533279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antst Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Anyone figured way to keep sleep for HDDs and keep DVD awake? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75421-fix-if-your-sata-dvd-drive-stops-responding-after-a-while/#findComment-577966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricker59 Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 What i do is when its in sleeping mode a go to Disk Util. and eject the diskdrive and than close the disk en he works again Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75421-fix-if-your-sata-dvd-drive-stops-responding-after-a-while/#findComment-928587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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