A trick with early portables was to keep a disk in the drive at all times. This stopped the floppy drive being polled and kept the power consumption down. Don’t ask why it worked, but it did.
I have an app which gives me FTP servers as mounted volumes through SSH (Finder gives the appearance of doing this, but it’s read only at best). When mounted it seems OK, but BBEdit kind of gets stuck at times if it has a file open on one of the remote drives. I get the feeling that it’s doing something to keep the file open, or that it has to ask the OS if the file is still available. It does seem odd what happens at times.
