[CentOS] Re: sleepy disk drives

[Kay Diederichs]

Aleksandar Milivojevic schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a grief with Seagate FreeAgent Pro drive connected to
> CentOS 4 box via USB.  The problem is that drive is factory configured
> to take a nap (spin down) after some 15-20 minutes of inactivity, and
> there doesn't seem to be a way to disable it.  Since it's USB
> connected, hdparm can't be used on it.  Getting the drive out of the

could you set up a root cron job which touches a file on the disk every 15 minutes?

HTH,

Kay