Maxim Shkurygin wrote:
Sounds like a wierd hardware bug to me, perhaps it could be reproduced
using another OS? A dirty hack would be to make cron run ls command on
your drive every 5 minutes or so. It will not resolve the underlying
problem, but perhaps the symptoms will go away. To do this, you need
to issue command
$ crontab -e
after which cron will ask you for a string which specifies when and
how often you want to run the process. To issue ls every five minutes
enter:
*/5 * * * * /bin/ls /path/to/your/drive > /dev/null
Change /path/to/your/drive to the location where the drive is mounted
and hopefully there will be no problems.
Max Shkurygin.
I already did something similar adding a command to /etc/rc.local .
Doing it with cron is probably a cleaner fix.
It didn't bother me for quite a while and for some reason I lost access
to the drive this morning, and had to do a cold restart at an
inconvenient time. (thus sparking my initial post)
I could try booting off of a livecd of something else to see if it
happens. My guess is it wouldn't because the CD/DVD drive is on the IDE
bus. I could put some other OS in a small partition on the sata ( Still
have lots of room) what would you suggest ? I think I have a fairly
current ubuntu around. (my stuff is all FC or Centos ) I could do that
on Tuesday.
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