On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:15:44AM -0400, Marty wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Marty wrote:
>>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.
>
>Try hdparm to turn off the drive's auto-spindown.
>
# hdparm -S0 /dev/sdb
I don't have it installed right now, but don't you have to tell hdparm
(with a param) that its a scsi or something (even though it should
figure that out with /dev/sdb)? Anyway, from what I remember, you're
missing a param.