Try hdparam to control sleep time. Here is Ubuntu link: https://askubuntu.com/questions/39760/how-can-i-control-hdd-spin-down-t ime
If that does not work, and you cannot change your DAS settings, you might need to look at powertop to check if your USB is not going to sleep. Synology NAS have settings to set disk sleep timer. It is a great way to prolong disk life and reduce heat and noise. By default it is off. Tomas On Sat, 2018-09-29 at 16:16 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 14:28:43 -0700 > Tomas K <[email protected]> dijo: > > > It appears that you either did not have the directory mounted or it > > was > > in power saving mode (disks spun down, etc.) > > The Movies USB device is always mounted, but yes, it seems to go into > sleep mode all the time. Any disk activity brings it out of sleep > mode, > although it can take a full minute before it is available. The > Synology > is NAS, and it doesn't appear to suffer from being in sleep mode. > > Why couldn't I just make a little bash script: > > cd .. > cd /media/jjj/Movies > <my rsync command here> > > That seems simpler, simple enough that even I understand it. :) > > Having said that I suffer from this drive having to refresh itself > all > the time. I mean, dozens of times a day I sit here twiddling my > thumbs > while I wait and listen to the discs rumble and watch the lights > blink. I use this disk all day long, yet it seems to go into sleep > mode > after five minutes of inactivity. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
