Re: FN-FORUM: External hard drive - how to stop "spin-down"?

date posted 22nd August 2007 17:36

Hi Alain,

I have tried that. It is Acer Power Management. Even if I set "turn
off hard disk" to "never" it keeps spinning down - it has its own
mind. I also checked my BIOS, no mention of power management there.

Stuck...

Jay



On 22 Aug 2007 16:58:40 -0000, Alain Williams [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:54:00PM -0000, Juraj Seffer wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to disable idle feature on my external Seagate hard drive.
> > I asked Seagate for help, they don't have any tools/software/firmware
> > to fix this. I also tried to Google for something, no luck. Hard drive
> > is connected via USB to a laptop.
> >
> > Does anybody know about software that can access hard drive at regular
> > intervals, say ever 3 mins, to prevent hard drive spinning down? It
> > really annoys me...
>
> You will prob find something in the power saving menu (or something similar)
> for the settings of your OS.
>
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