Re: Disappearing USB drives

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: Disappearing USB drives
Date	2020-06-28 13:45 +0200
Message-ID	<2fcmsg-dr9.ln1@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink)
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On 28/06/2020 04.37, Jeff Jonas wrote:
>> I'm trying to find the solution to USB drives 'disappearing'
>> while being accessed.
>> The drives affected are THREE different external USB drives,
>> two Western Digital 8TB drives
>> and a smaller Seagate 2TB drive
> 
> If the problem is happening while writing,
> check the log with 'dmesg' for USB or drive errors.
> That's the best clue for what's triggering the cascade of problems.
> 
> If the drive goes offline after being idle for 1/2 hour,
> the drive is going into "power save mode",
> something Linux knows nothing about.
> My workaround was to put the drive on a Windows system
> and using the mfgr's utility to set power-save to "never"
> so the drive stays spinning.

man hdparm


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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