On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:00:13 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/29/2009 10:52 AM, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> All, >> >> I have a USB disk (a 320GB Western Digital My Passport) which is >> exhibiting the following problem. >> >> When first hooked up and mounted, it works fine. I've successfully >> transferred 100's of GB onto the disk. >> >> However, if left idle for some hours, it fails when accessed, with a >> spontaneous USB disconnect and reconnect of the device (log excerpts below). > > Could it be going into hibernation or sleep?
hdparm -S0 (turning off spin-down) fixes the problem. (hdparm -B2555 - turn off advanced power management - doesn't help.) Thanks for the suggestions, folks! I am going to set up automount and see if that also helps. I will report back in a couple of weeks. Reid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
