Re: disable sleep mode hdd usb

[Tabano <tabano@iberia.jazztel.es>]

 Tabano wrote:
>  I want disable the sleep mode in my external hdd usb forever when 
start Debian.
>
>

First, thanks to everybody.


Debian Sid. Updated from Squeeze.


hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda1

/dev/sda1:
 setting Advanced Power Management level to disabled
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Invalid exchange
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid exchange


blkid

/dev/hda1: UUID="8f2c7eb6-aa65-457f-868e-60f840f28029" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/hda5: UUID="8dff1df8-c18c-4d37-950f-d81170525785" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda1: UUID="44FCB251FCB23D4C" TYPE="ntfs"


hdparm -B 255 /dev/disk/by-uuid/44FCB251FCB23D4C

/dev/disk/by-uuid/44FCB251FCB23D4C:
 setting Advanced Power Management level to disabled
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Invalid exchange
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid exchange


Impossible ??

In Windows, the sofware xspeed is the solution (eternally read/write in 
hdd).