On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 17:39 +0100, Peder Hedlund wrote: > Quoting Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > "All WD external hard drives will spin down (enter into power saver > > mode) after 10 minutes of drive inactivity. Once the drive is accessed > > again, the drive will exit from the power saver mode and spin back up. > > If it's designed to spin down it's probably also designed to be able > to handle that. > An obvious workaround would be having a cron job doing a 'touch > TempFile' or something similar on the disk once every 5 minutes or so. Thank you Peder, that's a good idea, if the spin downs should cause issues. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
