joys_33 wrote: > ....And please, what about putting the classic HDD disk to sleep, is > there somewhere in the system this function so that the disk does not > keep spinning when the device is not in use?
Isn't this usually a setting in the external drive's firmware, rather than on the computer? Searching for the opposite of what you want, I found this page, mostly more than ten years old, but with one suggestion from last year: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5211/prevent-a-usb-external-hard-drive-from-sleeping What I think I understand from that is that hdparm might make it possible for you to change the drive's settings. hdparm is available in piCorePlayer extensions. Another suggestion in that thread was to attach the drive to a Windows computer and change the settings there. I should probably mention that I also found articles that suggested that drives may be designed to spin constantly, in which case spinning down when not in use may actually shorten the drive's lifespan. My own experience when using a usb hdd for the LMS library was that the drive would spin down after about five minutes of inactivity. It would then take about a minute to spin up again, causing problems if LMS had buffered a long track. I had to prevent spin down while LMS was playing. Usually running latest beta LMS nightly on Raspberry Pi OS with virtual players (Squeezelite and Airplay bridge). Occasionally using SB Radio, Boom or Classic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RobbH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67008 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117139 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
