Man, is this timely. Over the last few months I had noticed that one or all of my 4 external Firewire drives would spool down by themselves and I had not told them to do this. I had finally decided that this might be part of the problem I have with long renders in Final Cut Pro that CRASH. Last week I spent a goodly amount of time talking to the vendors of said Firewire drives only to be told by newby 18 year old "Tech reps" that "all drives do that" when I know they never do and never have in the last 19 years I been messin' with these machines. Lo and behold I see this fix today on VersionTracker and I am stoked. I haven't tried Spindownfix yet but just for telling me the UNIX part of OSX is causing this to happen I give the programmer 5 stars & a HIGH FIVE. Even if it doesn't work, I have now found the answer to my problem. Thanks Much to Macmaps.com Webmaster A. Brody!