Sounds like cron+touch to the rescue!
--ronan
> On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
>> Folks, I have one of these outboard 1.5TB HD's which I use as a
>> portable video library. I have noticed that when the disk is plugged
>> into a machine, but there is no activity on it after some period of
>> time it disappears off of the list of mounted disk. The disk is a
>> Seagate FreeAgent 1.5 TB disk, I have tested it out on different USB
>> ports and it still does the same thing. Also appear to do it on both
>> a SuSE 11.1 machine and two Ubuntu 9.04 machines. As long as I either
>> keep a file manager open on it or am pulling video from it it will
>> stay on line, but if I close everything out, it will after a while
>> drop out. The machine may still show it as mounted, but as soon as
>> you click on the icon it disappears. The thing is formated in NTFS,
>> but all of my machines appear to read it just fine. Just needs to be
>> kept active to keep it on line.
>
> Sure it's not doing something rude like powering down unexpectedly?
>
> First hit, googling |seagate freeagent linux|:
>
> http://engadget.com/2007/12/07/seagate-freeagent-drives-not-down-with-linux/
>
>
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