USB external hard drive spin down problem
On my Etch system a new Western Digital USB external hard drive seems to be
automatically spinning itself down after a period of inactivity, and causing the
USB controller to become unresponsive to all USB devices until the system is
rebooted.
I don't see any other problems. Based on my web search, it seems to be an old
issue in Debian and some spinoff distros, with no clear resolutions that I could
find. The exact behavior has been reported several times, but rarely and few of
the reports are recent. My current workaround is to keep the drive busy while I
am using it. I am hoping that there is some configuration or tool that resolves
or works around this problem, which I am not aware of.
Thanks for any theories or solutions.
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