The problem is that the player application manually sets the spindown for the hard drives. The impression that I've gotten is that it specifically tells the drives to spin down rather than setting a timeout. This should mean that you could compile a copy of hdparm for the empeg and use it to tell the empeg's hard drives to spin back up. While the empeg's ``off'', I imagine the player wouldn't try to do anything with the hard drive, so turning it off and then running the appropriate hdparm command should do it.

Exactly how you'd want to get that done, I don't know. The only way I can think of at the moment is to telnet into the empeg after you've turned it ``off'' and run the hdparm command by hand. Maybe the new EXEC features Mark is adding to hijack might let you automate it in some way, though. Or at least use the EXEC via ftp instead of having to install a telnet daemon.