Read Only

[hike]

this problem with "green" drives has been reported in the press.
a work-around would be to use a script that queries the drive in some
fashion periodically.

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Eric Sisler <esisler at westminster.lib.co.us>
wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:21 -0700, Michael Scully wrote:
>
> >       I've been using external USB hard drives on RHEL for more than a
> > year.  But this condition only happens on one system.  I make ext3
> > filesystems on the devices (I have more than one here).  I can mount
> them
> > fine and write to them fine.  But after a time period of inactivity, the
> > drives spin down for power savings.  When they wake back up, the file
> > systems become READ ONLY.  A simple umount and mount is all that's
> needed to
> > remedy this, but I can't always do that in some automated processes.
> >
> >       Has anyone else seen this behavior?  The mount points are in the
> > standard /media directory.
>
> I've experienced a similar problem with internal drives on a couple of
> Dell desktop PCs being used as firewalls.  Middle of the night with
> little to no activity, the drive would go into power save mode and then
> things would get ugly.
>
> The drives are Maxtor, Dell provided a BIOS update to turn the drive's
> power saving mode off.  I'd poke around the vendor's website a little
> and see if they have something similar available.
>
> -Eric
>
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