Hard disk keeps turning off or disconnecting?

[Nils Kassube]

Gilles Gravier wrote:
> And...
> 
> sudo hdparm -B 255 /dev/sdb
> 
> /dev/sdb:
>  setting Advanced Power Management level to disabled
>  HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Invalid argument
>  APM_level    = not supported

Then try 254 instead of 255. According to the hdparm manpage some disks 
don't support 255.


Nils