On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:34:26PM +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 08:08 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
> > My other drives only take a couple of seconds to wake from sleep ...
> > surprised the seagate takes minutes ... I think the platter spins down
> > after a while and it is quite fast to awake ..
>
> I have a seagate drive that falls asleep when it gets bored. Sometimes
> it's quick to wake up (a few seconds), other times it takes ages
> (minutes), or may not wake up. I'm wondering if it has three different
> sleep levels.
>
> I also find I'm getting errors. The drive can be heard clacking away
> *trying* to read, some files sometimes. And I'm also wondering whether
> it falls asleep before any drive changes get committed.
I also have a seagate USB drive that, once it goes to sleep, can
take a minute or two to come back to life--long enough that I start
getting i/o errors. OTOH, my cheap old WD usb drive wakes up quickly
and works fine.
I recall there being a bug in some vendor's USB drives a few years ago
that manifested on Linux, but not Windows, where once it had gone to
sleep it was reluctant to revive on Linux. I don't recall which vendor
it was, though.
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