Re: [SLUG] Disk drops off line

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Sep 06 2009 - 21:54:18 EDT


On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 20:01, Pete Theisen<petetheisen@verizon.net> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>
> Hi Chuck,
>
> What do you have to do to get it back on?
>
Power down power up... I was looking at the sites that came up with what
Eben did, I am not sure why I got nil, but must have been something in the
way I formated my query... Ohh well, thanks so far, now just to figure out
what is the best way to deal with it...

-- 
Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."

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