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From: "Mathieu L." <lejatorn@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:10:02 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Using cwfs
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> > if you are simply left with a directory that's been
> > deleted.  maybe something else is going on?
>
> Perhaps. The harddisk is a FreeAgent Seagate,
> connected via USB. It used to go into sleep mode
> every 15 minutes and I would often have to restart
> cwfs - this is probably cause for a lot of damage.
>
> It's no longer an issue, as I recently got access to
> a Windows computer with the proper software to
> disable this.

I've already told Akumar offlist, just writing it to the list for
documentation:
that auto sleep mode on seagates can be disabled on linux (dunno about
*BSD) as well with sdparm. I don't remember the args for sure, but
probably something like
'sdparm -c STANDBY /dev/sdX#'
then
'sdparm -s /dev/sdX#'
to save.

Mathieu