Mounting an External USB Hard Drive

[Amichai Rotman]

I don't have sg_start installed and searching for it in the apt-get cache
returned no results.

I would also like it to persist between reboots.

Is there a way I can check what's the current state?

Thanks!

Amichai.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 16:42, Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 9 March 2011 14:38, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> > Is the hard drive faulty?
> > Is there a system check I can run to verify?
> > Where do I look for clues?
>
> Probably the drive is spinning down to save power. I have a drive
> which does this.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ExternalDriveStandby
>
> Above page may be interesting, especially the bit at the bottom:-
> "Use: sg_start --pc=3 /dev/sda ..for "standby" mode, which still
> causes the disc to spin down but allows it to automatically spin back
> up when accessed."
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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