On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:34:26PM +0930, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 08:08 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
My other drives only take a couple of seconds to wake from sleep ... surprised the seagate takes minutes ... I think the platter spins down after a while and it is quite fast to awake ..
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.
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.
I also have a seagate USB drive that, once it goes to sleep, can take a minute or two to come back to life--long enough that I start getting i/o errors. OTOH, my cheap old WD usb drive wakes up quickly and works fine.
I recall there being a bug in some vendor's USB drives a few years ago that manifested on Linux, but not Windows, where once it had gone to sleep it was reluctant to revive on Linux. I don't recall which vendor it was, though.