It's not the spinning down thats an issue its the spinning up to get past that glitch on the drive. When you first fire up the machine the drive light is on all the time but does not boot. It stays on even after the computer decides to hook into the floppy drive. Remember that when the machine loads Workbench it is doing this from the floppy and the first time it does this the partitions are not visible. Only when you soft boot again do the partitions become visible. And if left it will boot only from the floppy. It only boots from the hard drive after a full load with the floppy and then a soft boot with the two mouse buttons down and select. I do not understand why, but I believe I have a working solution for my needs.
This drive is very well used. There is a game on the machine that has a multitude of saves. Been hammered in other words. The guy who had the machine was very knowledgable and I have a feeling he did explain what was wrong. I believe that with his knowledge and love for his machines he would have resolved this if he could.
In the past now... onto icon editing now and trying to fix the size of old style icons from images that I have loaded in. Tricky but doable. Onwards.... I have six Amigas running here.. incredible.
a CF would make much more sense, its faster,silent and ultra low power,but if you intend to stick with a hd, ditch the bad drive and grab another. they are still pretty common and cheap.. i may have half a dozen of them laying around.
