Since many of us use external USB drives on windows XP I'm sure there are some of you that have seen this error.
I've searched and tried many things and it still failed. There are many reasons that can cause this but I think a common one, was what I ran into and finally fixed. The problem is most folks set their drive spin down time less than their hibernate or standby time. The problem with this is, when the computer goes to standby or hibernate the drive needs to be spun up to do some house keeping. The USB drives can spin up rather slow and might not have as tight a hand shake as an internal IDE drive (which this problem rarely happens on). So all I did was set the drive spin down time to be greater than the hibernate time. I could of also set never. It's just a habit to set drives and monitor to be less than standby / hibernate. In reality the drive will normally always spin when actively serving squeeze center. Having it spin down a little sooner than hibernate served little purpose. Also when the system restores from standby or hibernate the last state for the drive is a spinning state. Well any ways this trivial change seemed to fix it. This seems so much simpler than playing with drivers, cache sizes and hotfixes. You'll also see "hibernate" often refernced with the problem. My WOL (Wake On Lan) server is finally 100% solid. -- mswlogo Thinkpad XP SS > Cat5 > Transporter > SPDIF-COAX > Meridian G68ADV (Trifield, Room corrected, Upsampled) > DSP6000 Mains, DSP5500HC Center, DSP33 Rears ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49700 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
