Thursday, January 7, 2010

Stop Seagate Drive from Going into STANDBY - Linux Mint 8 x64

# sdparm -al /dev/sdd
    /dev/sdd: Seagate   FreeAgentDesktop  100D
    Direct access device specific parameters: WP=0  DPOFUA=0
Power condition [po] mode page:
  IDLE        0  [cha: n, def:  0, sav:  0]  Idle timer active
  STANDBY     1  [cha: y, def:  1, sav:  1]  Standby timer active
  ICT         0  [cha: n, def:  0, sav:  0]  Idle condition timer (100 ms)
  SCT       9000  [cha: y, def:9000, sav:9000]  Standby condition timer (100 ms)
# sdparm --clear STANDBY -6 /dev/sdd
    /dev/sdd: Seagate   FreeAgentDesktop  100D
# sdparm -al /dev/sdd
    /dev/sdd: Seagate   FreeAgentDesktop  100D
    Direct access device specific parameters: WP=0  DPOFUA=0
Power condition [po] mode page:
  IDLE        0  [cha: n, def:  0, sav:  0]  Idle timer active
  STANDBY     0  [cha: n, def:  1, sav:  0]  Standby timer active
  ICT         0  [cha: n, def:  0, sav:  0]  Idle condition timer (100 ms)
  SCT         0  [cha: n, def:9000, sav:  0]  Standby condition timer (100 ms)

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