Hi Stefan,
On Samstag, 24. März 2012, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: normal
>
> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour).
>
> This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5" drive, it's almost always
> idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not
>> Hmm... I guess I'm going to have to test it in a minimal environment
>> where I'm reasonably sure there can't be some "clever" daemon
>> interfering while trying to do something useful.
> Did you find the solution? And if yes, what was it?
I think the problem was hardware. At least I'm now usi
On Wed, Mar 28 2012, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Hmm... I guess I'm going to have to test it in a minimal environment
> where I'm reasonably sure there can't be some "clever" daemon
> interfering while trying to do something useful.
Hi,
Did you find the solution? And if yes, what was it?
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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
> The hard disk can have set (by default) embbeded routines that make the
> disk to be "awaked" at a regular interval and external disks (those that
> come with USB enclosures or NAS/SAN appliances) tend to do it to speed up
> things (e.g., to run scheduled backup tasks).
For a NAS, I could agree.
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:46:59 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour).
(...)
>> Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it? IIRC,
>> this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also "/usr/
>> share
On Mi, 28 mar 12, 09:46:59, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> Even when not mounted (and with its LVM volumes deactivated) it still
> spins-up.
This sounds like BIOS or drive firmware.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour).
>>> (...)
> Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it?
> IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also
> "/usr/ share/doc/hdparm/README.acoustic") but as the man page/doc
> says
On Sb, 24 mar 12, 14:03:58, Curt wrote:
> On 2012-03-24, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >
> > My problem is that apparently some application somehow accesses the
> > drive but not in a way that block_dump catches.
>
> It won't spin up if it's not mounted, will it?
If it still does then at least Stefan
On 2012-03-24, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> My problem is that apparently some application somehow accesses the
> drive but not in a way that block_dump catches.
It won't spin up if it's not mounted, will it?
I mean, I believe you mentioned you only use the drive once a day
for back-up purposes, so
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:15:38 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour).
>> (...)
> Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it?
IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also
"/usr/ share/doc/hdp
My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour).
> (...)
Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it?
>>> IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also
>>> "/usr/ share/doc/hdparm/README.acoustic") but as the man page/doc says,
>>> the poss
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:47:36 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour).
(...)
>>> Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it?
>
>> IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also
>> "/usr/ share/doc/hdparm/RE
>> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour).
>>
>> This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5" drive, it's almost always
>> idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not in a place
>> where I can easily plug it in and out.
>>
>> Googling, I found a very similar lo
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:06:05 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour).
>
> This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5" drive, it's almost always
> idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not in a place
> where I can easily plug it
My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour).
This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5" drive, it's almost always
idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not in a place
where I can easily plug it in and out.
Googling, I found a very similar looking problem that oc
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