Re: keeping USB disk awake (SOLVED--kind of)

2013-04-16 Thread poma
On 15.04.2013 19:51, Sherman Grunewagon wrote: > I have since called the manufacturer of the docking station. They confirmed > that this > particular dock has the "feature" that it autonomously goes to sleep after 5 > minutes of non-use > when connected via USB. That's why nothing I did via the

Re: keeping USB disk awake (SOLVED--kind of)

2013-04-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Sherman Grunewagon wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sherman Grunewagon wrote: On Wed Apr 10, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Sherman Grunewagon wrote: On Tue Apr 9, 2013, at 06:02:08, pomo wrote: On 09.04.2013 07:38, Sherman Grunewagon wrote: I have an e

Re: keeping USB disk awake (SOLVED--kind of)

2013-04-15 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 10:51 -0700, Sherman Grunewagon wrote: > I guess I will have to ping the two docking stations every 4.9 minutes > via a cron job to keep them awake. > > What a kludge. Other suggestions? Include the drive into an automated back-up system that makes use of the drive that of

Re: keeping USB disk awake (SOLVED--kind of)

2013-04-15 Thread Sherman Grunewagon
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Sherman Grunewagon wrote: > > On Wed Apr 10, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Sherman Grunewagon wrote: > >>> On Tue Apr 9, 2013, at 06:02:08,  pomo wrote: > On 09.04.2013 07:38, Sherman Grunewagon wrote: > > > I have