USB external hard drive disconnecting
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Feb 15 17:45:48 UTC 2008
Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
>
> Pardon following up to myself, but something just occurred to me. I
> was thinking that autofs would be beneficial in that it would allow
> the drive to go to sleep, if that's what it was doing. (It gets
> pretty hot when always on, for one thing.) Autofs would just wake it
> up when needed. But now I'm realizing that if it goes to sleep, it'll
> probably disconnect, the kernel will lose any knowledge of it, and
> autofs won't be able to wake it up after all. I guess I still need to
> prevent it from going to sleep. Harumph!
>
> reid
>
How hot is "pretty hot"? Is it possible that the drive electronics
are overheating? You might need a better external case.
It would be nice if you could change the power save settings of the
drive, but I have not figured out how to do that on a USB connected
drive. I wish I could be of more help...
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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