Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Marty wrote:
On my Etch system a new Western Digital USB external hard drive seems to be
automatically spinning itself down after a period of inactivity, and
causing the USB controller to become unresponsive to all USB devices until
the system is rebooted.
I don't see any other problems. Based on my web search, it seems to be an
old issue in Debian and some spinoff distros, with no clear resolutions
that I could find. The exact behavior has been reported several times, but
rarely and few of the reports are recent. My current workaround is to keep
the drive busy while I am using it. I am hoping that there is some
configuration or tool that resolves or works around this problem, which I
am not aware of.
Try hdparm to turn off the drive's auto-spindown.
Doug.
# hdparm -S0 /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
setting standby to 0 (off)
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setidle1) failed: Invalid argument
I think you are on right track. I want the sdparm equivalent but I don't see
anything in the sdparm man or info page.
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