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Autumn

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From: Santa Clara, CA USA

Registered: 2013-08-25

Posts: 13

Seagate HD problem

Hi folks, I just purchased a Seagate Barracuda 500gb hard disk. It seems that Seagate now includes some kind of a sleep feature hard programmed into the firmware. If I leave my system unattended for more than 15 minutes the HD falls asleep and will not wake up. I have to hold the power button down and shut it off that way. I need some help in keeping this hd awake every ~10 minutes. I'm not so smart when it comes to making a script to run a small routine(maybe access a file or something) to deal with this issue. I'm hoping someone can help me with that. I'm using Waldorf on a Quad core Dell 755 system. Love Waldorf btw.

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lcafiero

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From: Felton, California, USA

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Re: Seagate HD problem

Hey, Autumn --

Someone may be a long soon with a better answer than this (which is not really an answer at all). I just wanted to say that Seagate has not been good to Linux users, historically speaking, and personally I try avoiding them (though they used to be based in Scotts Valley, the next town over from me here in Santa Cruz County, neighbor ).

That said, with curiosity piqued, I did find this item that may help:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardwar … 0-4-a.html

I don't know if this is the same model, but the setting described in it might help.

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Autumn

Member

From: Santa Clara, CA USA

Registered: 2013-08-25

Posts: 13

Re: Seagate HD problem

Hey, Autumn --

Someone may be a long soon with a better answer than this (which is not really an answer at all). I just wanted to say that Seagate has not been good to Linux users, historically speaking, and personally I try avoiding them (though they used to be based in Scotts Valley, the next town over from me here in Santa Cruz County, neighbor ).

That said, with curiosity piqued, I did find this item that may help:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardwar … 0-4-a.html

I don't know if this is the same model, but the setting described in it might help.

Thank you for the help. I appreciate it. This solution is one that I came across while researching it last night. My HD says APM _level = not supported. I may take it back but my alternatives may be limited, seems WD is doing this now also.

Last edited by Autumn (2013-08-26 16:24:40)

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Autumn

Member

From: Santa Clara, CA USA

Registered: 2013-08-25

Posts: 13

Re: Seagate HD problem

It just happened. All commands no longer recognized at the command prompt. The only key combo that would do anything was cntl-alt-f1. It went to black screen and proclaimed, "EXT4-fs error (device sda1): ext4_find_entry:935: inode #2202009:comm getty: reading directory lblock 0".  I had to hard shut down again. Any ideas?

Thank you!

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