On 27 June 2011 17:04, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote: <--SNIP-->
I have a seagate drive that falls asleep when it gets bored. Sometimes it's quick to wake up (a few seconds), other times it takes ages (minutes), or may not wake up. I'm wondering if it has three different sleep levels.
Well, yes. Fortunately you can configure sleep time-out using hdparm or even turn off power management completely. See man hdparm. I also find wikipedia page on hdparm very useful. Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdparm
I also find I'm getting errors. The drive can be heard clacking away *trying* to read, some files sometimes. And I'm also wondering whether it falls asleep before any drive changes get committed.
If in doubt use sync ;- )
-- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
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