On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:15:44AM -0400, Marty wrote: > 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. > > > > # hdparm -S0 /dev/sdb
I don't have it installed right now, but don't you have to tell hdparm (with a param) that its a scsi or something (even though it should figure that out with /dev/sdb)? Anyway, from what I remember, you're missing a param. > > /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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
