On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Marty wrote: > On my Etch system a new Western Digital USB external hard drive seems to be > automatically spinning itself down after a period of inactivity, and > causing the USB controller to become unresponsive to all USB devices until > the system is rebooted. > > I don't see any other problems. Based on my web search, it seems to be an > old issue in Debian and some spinoff distros, with no clear resolutions > that I could find. The exact behavior has been reported several times, but > rarely and few of the reports are recent. My current workaround is to keep > the drive busy while I am using it. I am hoping that there is some > configuration or tool that resolves or works around this problem, which I > am not aware of.
Try hdparm to turn off the drive's auto-spindown. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
