keeping USB disk awake

[poma]

On 11.04.2013 00:51, Sherman Grunewagon wrote:

> Thanks. I have now, as well as hdparm -B 255 drive.
> The disk/docking station still suspends after a few minutes.
> I'm ready to try recompling the kernel with CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND=n
> But since 
> 
>     for i in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/autosuspend; do echo -1 > $i; done
> 
> also has no effect, I think it will be a waste of time.
> 
> I should mention that this is a freshly updated F18 install.
> Motherboard is a Sabertooth Z77.
> The docking station is a StarTech,
> <http://www.startech.com/HDD/Docking/SuperSpeed-USB-3-eSATA-Hard-Drive-Docking-Station-with-Cooling-Fan~SATDOCKU3SEF>
> 
> and the disk is a SAMSUNG HD103SJ sata drive (1 TB).
> The motherboard docs don't say anything about USB suspend.

Spinpoint F3, hah!
It's up to the USB controller/adapter, not to drive.
Before the jump, you can call people who actually wrote the code -
linux-usb at vger.kernel.org.

poma