external USB disk

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sun Nov 18 04:57:41 UTC 2012


On 11/17/2012 06:03 PM, Steve Flynn wrote:
> On 16 November 2012 16:48, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com
> <mailto:richardkimber at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>     the disk would spin down and remain quiet.  Recently, however, I've
>     noticed
>     that something is causing the disk to spin up every 5 minutes, even
>     though
>     it is unmounted.
>
>
> It's unmounted and it STILL spins up every 5 minutes? And it didn't do
> this in the past?
>
> Has it had a firmware patch?
>
> I would imagine that if the disk definitely is unmounted and it's still
> winding up it's something on this disk itself which is doing this. Test
> by pulling the USB cable from the disk - if it still lights up, it's the
> firmware so your attention should be directed to Seagate.

Sounds like the bios is handling the power management instead of the OS. Ric


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