Hello,
Vista Ultimate... two Lacie external drives, a 500GB USB and a 250GB
Firewire.

When I go to My Computer (just Computer now in Vista of course) the act of
opening that process in Explorer hesitates / hangs / delays while Vista is
waiting to sort of spin up these external drives, you know it feels as
though Vista has told them to suspend or something when not in use.

I have tried everything I know, and Googled to death trying to figure how
make Vista stop letting these drives go to sleep or hibernate or whatever
the correct word is in Vista now.

So I guess my primary question is how to stop these external drives from
suspending/sleeping. This never happened in XP, these drives were always
ready and running at any time.

Thanks!

Tim