The drive is somewhat quiet but not quiet enough for me. Therefore this is the ideal for me: the drive is in sleep mode always except when I actually try to access the drive and for about 1 minute after I stopped accessing it. I know how to wake it up by a Wake-On-Lan request and in the Web Access there is System / Power Management / SleepTimer, but that would sleep only at certain time of the day.
Is it so that NASNavigator2 sends WOL packets to the drive and that keeps the drive on (when on Auto mode)? If that's the case, how do I prevent NASNavigator2 from sending those wake packets (still being able to actually access the drive when I want to)?
Or how do I simply make the drive sleep by command?
Well, here is my workaround for the time being (modify and apply these as applicable for you):
(0. Have your drive switch at the AUTO mode.)
1. Put a shortcut on your desktop with the Target such as \\LS-WSXL64F\share (double click to enter the drive when it is running)
2. Uninstall NAS Navigator from all of your computers (because it seems to be sending the constant Wake-On-Lan Magic Packets to the drive to keep it running.
3. As there is no NAS Navigator running, the drive will go to sleep preparation mode in about 4 minutes 40 seconds if there is no access to the drive.
4. After the 4 min 40 sec idle time the drive goes into a 30 seconds long sleep preparation time, during which the blue light flashes. You can't do anything with the drive at that stage. No use trying to connect to it or Magic Packet it. After the 30 seconds the drive goes to sleep = no blue light.
5. Now you can't connect the drive. You have to wake it up. Use WOL Magic Packet Sender to do that ( http://magicpacket.free.fr/ ). These are the settings:
* Host Name: 192.168.x.x (replace the IP)
* Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
* MAC Address: You can find MAC and the drive IP with WakeMeOnLan ( http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wake_on_lan.html )
* Protocol: UDP
* Port: 9
6. Press Send on the WOL tool. It will snooze for 5 seconds and then the blue light starts flashing: that is the drive wakeup cycle. Which lasts forever. Unbeliveably slow it is, takes about 2 min 5 sec.
7. At last the blue light stays lit and you can connect to it (with the desktop shortcut, for example).
That's it. Extremely annoying. 2 minutes and 10 seconds startup time? And 30 seconds of sleep preparation lock-up?