Apple 9600 Using Power Macintosh MP-compatible application programs, Turn off hard disk sleep

Using Power Macintosh MP–compatible application programs

If you’re using a Power Macintosh MP multiprocessing model, your computer contains two PowerPC processors for faster performance. Though you can use any Macintosh program with a Power Macintosh MP computer, you will get the best performance when you use programs that are designed to take advantage of the second PowerPC processor. These programs can provide significant performance improvements in processor-intensive tasks such as video-editing, 3D modeling, and scientific/technical applications. To find out if an application program performs better on a Power Macintosh MP model, check the system requirements for the program.

Setting up your Power Macintosh MP computer

For best results with a Power Macintosh MP model, make sure your energy- saving and virtual memory options are set as described here. Otherwise, the software programs designed to work with the second PowerPC processor won’t perform at their peak.

Turn off hard disk sleep

Make sure to configure the Energy Saver control panel so that your hard disk is never put to sleep. To disable hard disk sleep, do the following:

1Open the Energy Saver control panel.

2Choose Server Settings from the Preferences menu.

The Server Settings dialog box appears.

3Click the “Never put the hard disk to sleep” checkbox to place an X in it.

4Click OK.

5Click the close box to close the Energy Saver control panel.

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