Another thing to keep in mind - some of these drives auto-spindown when
idle. Kernels around 2.6.17 or 2.6.18 and later have an "allow restart"
option to spin the drive back up on access instead of giving an I/O
error back immediately.
cd to the /sys/class/scsi_disk/WHATEVER for the particular disk, and do
an "echo 1 > allow_restart" to enable.
I know the Seagate FreeAgent does this. I haven't tried the MyBook under
Linux yet to know if its different, but it appears to spindown as well.
Nathan Faust wrote:
Scott,
Take a look at this write up of getting the my book II to work on linux.
Nathan.
http://linu.gs/misc/remember/wd-mybook-1TB-on-linux.php
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 3:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [BBLISA] Help with External USB drive on RH/Centos 5
Another issue to tackle - I have an external 1 TB drive (2 500GB on a
RAID).
When I plug it into the server, it sees, via /var/log/messages, that a
USB
device was plugged in, but that's it. fdisk -l doesn't see it. dmesg
doesn't
do much, either. It is a Western Digital My Book II device.
I want to format it and use it for external storage, but can't until I
get to
it. What is the best way to get to the drive?
Thanks.
Scott
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