keeping USB disk awake

[Sherman Grunewagon]

On Wed, April 10, 2013 at 5:36 PM, poma wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the tip.   I'll join the mailing list and ask over there.

Sherman
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