> > if you are simply left with a directory that's been > > deleted. maybe something else is going on? > > Perhaps. The harddisk is a FreeAgent Seagate, > connected via USB. It used to go into sleep mode > every 15 minutes and I would often have to restart > cwfs - this is probably cause for a lot of damage. > > It's no longer an issue, as I recently got access to > a Windows computer with the proper software to > disable this.
I've already told Akumar offlist, just writing it to the list for documentation: that auto sleep mode on seagates can be disabled on linux (dunno about *BSD) as well with sdparm. I don't remember the args for sure, but probably something like 'sdparm -c STANDBY /dev/sdX#' then 'sdparm -s /dev/sdX#' to save. Mathieu
