On 27 June 2011 17:04, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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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 ;- )
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
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Hiisi