Re: [CentOS] Standard location for hotplug-time hdparm invocation

BTW, this came up because the drive is a Seagate GoFlex Desk which spins down and then won't come back up reliably. Googling around turned up this patch that looks like it shows up in a much later kernel, no earlier than 2.6.24: __

Re: [CentOS] Standard location for hotplug-time hdparm invocation

--On Sunday, February 27, 2011 3:37 PM + Keith Roberts wrote: > Not sure about hotpluging, but for the reboot > /etc/rc.d/rc.local might be a good place to try this: Googling turned up that suggestion a lot. But I realized that since this is a backup drive, it would be more useful to do it

Re: [CentOS] Standard location for hotplug-time hdparm invocation

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Kenneth Porter wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Kenneth Porter > Subject: [CentOS] Standard location for hotplug-time hdparm invocation > > I need to disable the spin-down on an external USB drive > because it spins down spontaneously while in

[CentOS] Standard location for hotplug-time hdparm invocation

I need to disable the spin-down on an external USB drive because it spins down spontaneously while in use. The drive forgets the spindown-disable state across power outage so I need to reissue the hdparm command with each boot or hotplug. Where should I put the hdparm command to do this? ___