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