[CentOS] sleepy disk drives

Hi, I'm having a grief with Seagate FreeAgent Pro drive connected to CentOS 4 box via USB. The problem is that drive is factory configured to take a nap (spin down) after some 15-20 minutes of inactivity, and there doesn't seem to be a way to disable it. Since it's USB connected, hdparm can't be

[CentOS] smartd and 3ware on centos5

Hi, I've CentOS5 box with 3ware RAID controller in it. I can't get the tw_cli command line tool to work, and smartd also barks on me. The tw_cli simply doesn't see the controller, no errors logged anywhere. When starting smartd, it is much more verbose. I'm getting a bunch of messages like thi

[CentOS] Re: smartd and 3ware on centos5

Thanks to Tim Verhoeven who pointed me towards the right direction. I've checked 3ware web site, and found newer version of tw_cli, which worked. It also created /dev/twe* devices (I have an "older" 8006-2LP card, newer cards use twa* devices). That solved problem with tw_cli tool. For smartd,