On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 10:15 -0800, Len Ovens wrote: > Run in a script with sleep, not from cron which might be turned off > for recording :) "Touching" the drive by such a script shouldn't cause issues, but it's annoying that it's needed, at least to safe some lifetime. Perhaps I'll use the drive continually. It's connected since 9 days nearly 24 hours a day, but was seldom used. It's silent, but after a while I noticed the audible spindowns. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user