[BBLISA] Help with External USB drive on RH/Centos 5

[Brian O'Neill]

Another thing to keep in mind - some of these drives auto-spindown when 
idle. Kernels around 2.6.17 or 2.6.18 and later have an "allow restart" 
option to spin the drive back up on access instead of giving an I/O 
error back immediately.

cd to the /sys/class/scsi_disk/WHATEVER for the particular disk, and do 
an "echo 1 > allow_restart" to enable.

I know the Seagate FreeAgent does this. I haven't tried the MyBook under 
Linux yet to know if its different, but it appears to spindown as well.


Nathan Faust wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> Take a look at this write up of getting the my book II to work on linux.
> 
> Nathan.
> 
> http://linu.gs/misc/remember/wd-mybook-1TB-on-linux.php
> 
>  
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
> Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 3:23 PM
> To: bblisa at bblisa.org
> Subject: [BBLISA] Help with External USB drive on RH/Centos 5
> 
> Another issue to tackle - I have an external 1 TB drive (2 500GB on a
> RAID). 
> When I plug it into the server, it sees, via /var/log/messages, that a
> USB 
> device was plugged in, but that's it.   fdisk -l doesn't see it.  dmesg
> doesn't 
> do much, either.   It is a Western Digital My Book II device.
> 
> I want to format it and use it for external storage, but can't until I
> get to 
> it.    What is the best way to get to the drive?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Scott
> 
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