[mythtv-users] USB Harddrives

Mitch Gore mitchell.gore at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 15:00:06 UTC 2008


>
> Could be its a WD iBook.
>
Actually a myBook.

Anyway i started googling power issues with the MyBook and sure enough there
are reports of this happening all over.  Apparently in Windows you load
software the handles power management by turning it off and on when needed.
In linux there is not software so the hardware just turnes itself off after
so long of no activity.

as a temporary working (well permanent until something better comes along) i
made a hourly cron job that mounts and umounts the drive.  hopefully this
will keep the drive active enough to not goto sleep.

Mitchell
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