this problem with "green" drives has been reported in the press. a work-around would be to use a script that queries the drive in some fashion periodically. On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Eric Sisler <esisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:21 -0700, Michael Scully wrote: > > > I've been using external USB hard drives on RHEL for more than a > > year. But this condition only happens on one system. I make ext3 > > filesystems on the devices (I have more than one here). I can mount > them > > fine and write to them fine. But after a time period of inactivity, the > > drives spin down for power savings. When they wake back up, the file > > systems become READ ONLY. A simple umount and mount is all that's > needed to > > remedy this, but I can't always do that in some automated processes. > > > > Has anyone else seen this behavior? The mount points are in the > > standard /media directory. > > I've experienced a similar problem with internal drives on a couple of > Dell desktop PCs being used as firewalls. Middle of the night with > little to no activity, the drive would go into power save mode and then > things would get ugly. > > The drives are Maxtor, Dell provided a BIOS update to turn the drive's > power saving mode off. I'd poke around the vendor's website a little > and see if they have something similar available. > > -Eric > > -- > Eric Sisler <esisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Library Network Specialist > Westminster Public Library > Westminster, CO USA > > Linux - Don't fear the Penguin. > Want to know what we use Linux for? > Visit http://wallace.westminster.lib.co.us/linux > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
