[Cialug] Weird USB drive issue

[L. V. Lammert]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Dave Hala Jr wrote:

> 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?
>
Probably either the drive or an internal issue - it is NTFS, after all.

	Lee