External harddrive not spinning down on suspend

[Norit]

mån 2010-12-06 klockan 09:14 +0000 skrev JB:
> Norit <norit <at> komma.info> writes:
> 
> > ... 
> > I am however having some troubles with my external usb harddrive.
> > ...
> > In Fedora the harddrive just keeps spinning when I send
> > the notebook into suspend and is not accessible after resume. Even
> > worse, the next suspend fails.
> 
> I do not have experience with it, but remember that in my BIOS there is
> an option that allows USB devices be powered on during power management
> periods (suspend, etc).
> You may investigate this (turn it on/off if present) and see how suspend behaves.
> It is possible that PM suspend is buggy and does not recognize this condition.
> 
> JB
> 
> 

Hi JB,

this is definitely not a BIOS issue since it worked fine with opensuse
11.3 and except for the OS i did not change anything. And I don't see
how powering my USB ports during standby will get my drive to spin down
during suspend. Thank you for your reply though!

Moe