I found this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/23446/how-to-avoid-hdd-spin-up-at-system-start-ubuntu-from-ssd
-Denis On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a 500GB WD hard drive installed in a dock. A number of weeks ago > fsck reported pages of errors. A few of you looked at a sample of the > messages and suggested that I had disconnected the drive while it was being > written. I had not done that (intentionally). More recently the desktop > reported the drive did not exist. I powered the drive off, removed and > reinserted the disk, the sata connector and the power plug. I tried again > and the drive was accessible. The backup seemed to go normally. Today the > same "no such drive" message appeared. > > It seems likely that the fsck issues were in fact due to a disconnect > similar to what causes the "no such drive" symptoms. > > So the possible causes are the sata connection, the drive's connection in > the dock, and the power supply. How might I trouble shoot this? > > Thanks, > -Denis > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
