epoch1970 wrote: > I'm sure there is a better solution, but as a last resort, I suppose you > could schedule to read a directory (ls command) every 15 min. or so... > You'll have to find a command whose results do not get cached, so it is > sure to not let the drive go to sleep. > In srvPowerControl there are some neat tricks you can do to have LMS > define the machine status, or inform LMS of the machine status via a > 3rd-party application. In theory, your plate-spinner runs could be > bracketed by srvPowerControl (e.g. pause at night, pause 30 min. after > player stop, start before alarm...) > > Supplementing power management is a bit involved in general, it would be > better to find the Windows key that controls USB power save or something > like that.
That's an interesting idea. I did a trial run by running a dir command manually, then doing a both a browse of my main music folder (on the USB drive) and a search. Both were still quite sluggish (at least 30 seconds to return a response). During that time I could hear the -internal- drive of the server getting hammered (i.e. not the LMS data USB drive). I have a large collection (90k tracks, 6k albums). As a matter of interest, is there anyone out there who has a similar size collection, and if so what sort of response times do you get when browsing and searching? The machine is an Intel Q6600 2.4GHz, with 4Gb RAM, running Win Server 2008. There's nothing much else running on it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ itm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17437 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105787 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
