I tried smartctl. It reported that the apm data was unavailable. I
couldn't get it to stay on, so I came up with a workaround. I set up a
cron job with two commands. The first touches a file on that drive.
The second deletes it. I set this for 10 minutes and it s eems to be
working.
On
Thanks. I'll look into this. If I can't get it to make the disk stay
spinning, I can always use a cron job to access a small text file every
5 or 10 minutes.
On 11/28/21 1:23 PM, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Hi,
I have had the same problem with USB connected drives on my Pis, but I
neede
Hi,
I have had the same problem with USB connected drives on my Pis, but I needed
the reverse. Namely, I wanted them to spin down after some time. The bottom
line is that since the hard drive is connected via USB, the USB hardware itself
may prevent the drive from spinning down (or always shut
I have a hard drive attached via a USB adapter to my raspberry pi. The
problem is that the disk always shuts down after a few minutes of
inactivity. When I want to access something on the disk or write to it,
I have to wait for it to spin up. How would I go about setting it so it
doesn't spin
