Re: USB drive spins up every hour

[Valentin Guggiana <valentin@guggiana.ch>]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:06:05 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour).

I had the same problem running CentOS 6 and Xvnc. Xvnc leads to
load some Gnome apps and daemons. One of them is the udisks-daemon
(/usr/libexec/udisks-daemon under CentOS 6). After I kill this
daemon the problem was gone. To avoid of reloading the daemon
again I removed the execute permission:

chmod -x /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon

Maybe you can find this daemon in your OS distribution as well.
Good luck :)


Regards, Valentin