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2008 Feb 20
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sleepy disk drives
...ce in the logs, and refuses any
operation on the file system(s) that are on that drive. In contrast,
Windows, Mac OS X and some other boxes I tried to connect the drive to
have no problem with it (drive simply spins up when accessed). There
was a patch in relatively recent Linux kernels that adds allow_restart
option (accessible from /sys), which apparently should solve the
problem for Linux (described here:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/DealWithAutoSpinDownOnSeagateFreeAgent).
When allow_restart is set to 1 (default is 0), Linux will do what all
other operating systems do by default, spin up the...