Re: [arch-general] Western Digital external drives

2013-03-14 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Chris Down wrote: > On 15 March 2013 05:56, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > yes, if I stay in the BIOS configuration the drive spins down and keeps > > sleeping. > > I'm more curious about the installer (or a bare bones Arch install) > than sitting in the BIOS. That mak

Re: [arch-general] Western Digital external drives

2013-03-14 Thread Chris Down
On 15 March 2013 05:56, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > yes, if I stay in the BIOS configuration the drive spins down and keeps > sleeping. I'm more curious about the installer (or a bare bones Arch install) than sitting in the BIOS. That makes it easier to differentiate Xfce problems from problems in base

Re: [arch-general] Western Digital external drives

2013-03-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 05:35 +0800, Chris Down wrote: > It's probably neither of these things, more than likely there is some > program which spins up your drives periodically to try and get > information about them. > > Have you tested in another environment (the installer, perhaps)? My > first gu

Re: [arch-general] Western Digital external drives

2013-03-14 Thread Chris Down
Hi Ralf, On 14 March 2013 23:20, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I'm aware that there's an Arch Wiki about WD drives. However, I need to > know if something is bad with Linux or a brand new WD drive. > > In the German WD forms I got a reply, with the claim, that once a WD > Elements is spin down, it will p

[arch-general] Western Digital external drives

2013-03-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hallo, I'm aware that there's an Arch Wiki about WD drives. However, I need to know if something is bad with Linux or a brand new WD drive. In the German WD forms I got a reply, with the claim, that once a WD Elements is spin down, it will park, _not_ spin up again, if there's no access. For my