The external green drive issue is really a firmware bug, with that 4 second spindown interval that gradually kills the drive unless it is run under very limited circumstances. I would not support removing GVFS from MATE, Cinnamon, or GNOME simply to crutch this situation. The correct fix would be to add the abiiity to blacklist a known bad drive from being managed by GVFS. Without GVFS the Nautilus-based file managers can be run but won't be able to mount or unmount drives. I would sooner trash my one surviving Caviar Green drive than give that up.
I had three of those clunkers, ran an HDPARM script against all three to stop the 4 second spindowns. A long time later, one died of a board failure and the other died of platter issues probably caused by having run those fixes too late. These drives should not be used in regular service at all, and if run every couple weeks to take a backup won't be damaged by the spindown issue as they simply won't get enough use. One way to stop the spindowns can be done as a user script that touches any file on the offending drive at two-second intervals as a "keep-alive" to force the drive to keep running. Again, these drives are defective hardware and should be warned about and workarounds offered, rather than removing features from file managers for all users to deal with them. On 10/7/2018 at 4:30 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 22:22:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>let alone of e.g. panels that might be replaced after using a file >>manager of another desktop environment. > >this should read panels _and wallpapers_ ;) > >-- >ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list >[email protected] >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
