[Cialug] Weird USB drive issue

[John Lengeling]

Do you have hdparam on your system?  If you do, you should use it
instead of these hacks to keep the drive alive.  If not, you should get
it.

What version of Linux do you use?

I have never seen the device name change like you are describing.

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of L. V. Lammert
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 8:30 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: [Cialug] Weird USB drive issue

Following up on the post about USB drives 'going to sleep', I did a
quick
ls cron job yesterday to try and prevent the problem.

Here's the weird part - I thought I was imagining it the first time, but
I
was correct:

When the drive 'goes to sleep', the ID CHANGES! It was /dev/sdf1 last
night, .. but this morning it was /dev/sde1! What could possibly cause
this? Given that the continuous ls did not keep it 'awake', it seems
like
something is causing the system to farkle the mount & force a detect,
which switch to a different ID.

	Lee
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