Hi all,

We want to use some standard USB 2.0 enclosures containing a 3.5" HDD for some backup purposes, the ideea was that those guys could stay attached and eventally moved to some other machine and so on, so far everything is OK, there is only one problem I'd like to know of:

The bloody HDDs gets HOT, like in extremely hot :(, because somehow seem that they never spin down, I know about hdparam and the stuff that I could try to spin it down, but ( and there is a big but) will that stuff work nondistructively on USB mass storage devices as above, will they be able to be spinned down without losing data, getting disconneted from the USB bus and other horrors ( and of course, restarted again :) ???

If somebody could help with a definite answer on that issue, eventually with some hdparm switches TESTED on such an external disk it will make me very happy.

Thank you for your time and season greetings,

Mircea Ciocan




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