Does this happen with a real daynaport when you put the portable to sleep...
I actually didn't even know what a "real DaynaPort was." I Googled it just now.
No, I don't have anything other than my Mac Portable (which is my only vintage Mac which sleeps) and the BlueSCSI v2 with PICO W.
BlueSCSI, on the other hand, does lose power when your system is put to sleep because it's treated as an internal hard drive which has no need for additional power while the system is sleeping.
One possible workaround (haven't tested it) would be to use an external enclosure with its own power supply connected to the BlueSCSI's floppy power input.
I appreciate that insight. The issue with that, of course, is that the intent here, in my case, is to replace the Conner HDD with a BlueSCSI v2. Which means, put the BSv2 inside the Macintosh Portable, into the drive bay. And it was for that reason I purchased the mounting bracket recently from you (which still is in transport to me).
I do know that the 5V rail of the Portable remains 5.28v while the Portable is in its wake or sleep state. I am not talking about power in that 34-pin SCSI cable the HDD. I am talking about the main 5V power rail. I always put my meter across the big axial cap nearest the heatsinked voltage regulator on the motherboard to watch it and see if it ever goes to zero. It doesn't. Wake or Sleep, it's 5.3v. So I am guessing that I could probably tap some point on that motherboard 5V voltage rail to keep BSv2 powered (which means the white "PWR" LED on BSv2 would then remain lit even during Sleep, which it does not do now). I've not tried that yet, because I'm not sure of the best point to tap. But realistically speaking, finding a solution for an
INTERNAL BlueSCSI is prudent. Not sure how many people would want to attach and remove an external BlueSCSI to a Macintosh "Portable" each and every time they want to power on the machine. Too fiddly. Let's be honest.
I did a lot of testing last night, and I was even about to make a video for you all, but in the course of making my video, the Portable woke from sleep and didn't freeze, despite the fact the ACT LED had been flashing rapidly (a sign WIFI was active) at the time I put it to sleep via menu command. It freezes on wake most of the time, but due to the sheer magic of me filming, it decided not to freeze. It was at that point I ended my test for the evening and went to bed.
Again, I think we really do need to be realistic here and consider most Macintosh Portable owners probably will want to do as I am doing and have a BlueSCSI v2 "inside" their Portable, and not as an external. Sure, I might attach a BlueSCSI externally now and then, but I would never want that to be my only SCSI drive on the machine. To bothersome to connect and reconnect. As a result, whatever solution I decide upon would be to have the BlueSCSI kept inside the machine, in the HDD drive bay.
One obvious workaround is to never sleep the machine, ever. But compounding that problem is the fact I have the Portable Battery Eliminator. As we all have discussed before, there are reasons why that device does not provide a means for a 9V battery to be attached to keep the PRAM intact. And so, whenever I power my Portable, since I have no lead acid battery, I must use the Portable Battery Eliminator. And that means PRAM is reset. That means the Portable is set to auto-sleep in 2 minutes unless I manually go in and kill that feature. But of course, that gets reset again when I stop using the machine and yank the power cord from the wall socket. What I mean is, if ever there's a time I forget to kill auto-sleep, which will happen because there is no means of using a PRAM battery, there will be times the machine might Sleep when I temporarily walk away from the machine. And if WIFI had been active, there will be a lot of times it will freeze, which requires a hard reset. And that is why I am discussing this topic, to see how best to work around that freezing issue.
Thanks.