Originally Posted By: mlord
The player software didn't even notice it happening (as designed).

If we were to make a habit of using desktop drives, then I'd add another 5 seconds to the spinup timeouts.

Unfortunately that's only half the problem; the player would need to be modified to deal correctly with drives which take ages to spin up, as, during steady-state playback, it only issues the spin-up command ten seconds before it needs the data.

Peter