On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:20:06 +0100, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > > 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.
Automount (autofs) does not help. Reid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
