Mounting an External USB Hard Drive
 

On 9 March 2011 14:38, Amichai Rotman <amichai@iglu.org.il> wrote:
> Is the hard drive faulty?
> Is there a system check I can run to verify?
> Where do I look for clues?

Probably the drive is spinning down to save power. I have a drive
which does this.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ExternalDriveStandby

Above page may be interesting, especially the bit at the bottom:-
"Use: sg_start --pc=3 /dev/sda ..for "standby" mode, which still
causes the disc to spin down but allows it to automatically spin back
up when accessed."

Cheers,
Al.

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Mounting an External USB Hard Drive
 

I don't have sg_start installed and searching for it in the apt-get cache returned no results.
I would also like it to persist between reboots.
Is there a way I can check what's the current state?


Thanks!
Amichai.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 16:42, Alan Pope <popey@ubuntu.com> wrote:


On 9 March 2011 14:38, Amichai Rotman <amichai@iglu.org.il> wrote:



> Is the hard drive faulty?

> Is there a system check I can run to verify?

> Where do I look for clues?



Probably the drive is spinning down to save power. I have a drive

which does this.



https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ExternalDriveStandby



Above page may be interesting, especially the bit at the bottom:-

"Use: sg_start --pc=3 /dev/sda ..for "standby" mode, which still

causes the disc to spin down but allows it to automatically spin back

up when accessed."



Cheers,

Al.



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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Amichai Rotman <amichai@iglu.org.il> wrote:
> I don't have sg_start installed and searching for it in the apt-get cache
> returned no results.

Install the sg3-utils package

> I would also like it to persist between reboots.

Pop the command into a script and have it fire on start-up.
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On 09/03/11 14:38, Amichai Rotman wrote:

Hello,

I have an external USB Hard Drive connected to my desktop running Ubuntu Lucid. I want this hard drive to be available all the time (I rearly take it with me). I added the following line in the '/etc/fstab' file, followin advice I got via this list:

UUID=4c881181-6b15-4910-a09f-0f3c88354440 /Data ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks 0 0

It worked fine for a long time, but lately I started to notice the disk is not mounted when I try to access files on it. Sometimes running 'sudo mount /Data' is enough, but sometimes I get an error saying the UUID does not exist...

It usually happens after a long time I don't use the computer (more than 30 minutes). I have set my screen saver to 'Picture Folder' and that folder is a symlink to a directory on that disk, so it's been accessed all the time...

Is the hard drive faulty?
Is there a system check I can run to verify?
Where do I look for clues?

Thanks!

Amichai.



system->administration->disk utility
can do some disk checks (use the 'SMART data' button)

otherwise you might want to look for interesting messages in dmesg (run 'dmesg' in a teminal)

sam


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