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Turning off usb harddrive standby mode

  • 10-11-2007 11:41PM
    #1
    hamster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭


    Hey Folks,

    I'm pretty sure they are plenty of you with those external usb FreeAgent Seagate harddrives. You probably know this but just in case you didn't - you can turn off that standby mode (that kicks in after 15 mins).
    While in Windows its an annoyance (lags other accessing other drives when waking up) - under linux (well, at least under ubuntu) it was not waking up for me once it powered down into sleep mode.
    df -h (note which drive is your usb drive)

    sdparm -al /dev/sdb1 # check for STANDBY condition - its likely = 1

    sdparm -c STANDBY -6 /dev/sdb1 # turn off stand by mode

    sdparm -al /dev/sdb1 # STANDBY should be turned now :)

    I came across this gem on linuxQuestions


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