[Cialug] Weird USB drive issue

[Dave Hala Jr]

I have some WD usb drives that I leave permanently attached on a centos
5 box. They sleep, but they don't disconnect,unmount or detach.  If the
drive is sleeping and you do an ls, there is simply a slight pause as
the drive spins up.  

I'm wondering if your issue is specific to the drive?

:) Dave


On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 11:01 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> 
> > In your dmesg output, is there a corresponding message where the old drive
> > disappears? (preceding what you pasted in?)
> >
> Indeed! There is adisconnect:
> 
> usb 1-2.4: USB disconnect, address 120
> 
> But, it's hard to tell when it happened [of course]. The bottom line is, I
> believe, that Seagate drives [nor any USB attached drive IMHO] should
> not be used for 'permanently' attached storage.
> 
> 	Lee
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