Hi Forum,

my new external USB HDD (WD myBook Studio II) automatically goes into standby after some time of being idle.
WD states, that this feature can't be turned off on this device series.
Unfortunately, this produces some 'ugly' entries in the syslog.log like:

Code:
kernel: Device 08:02 not ready.
kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:02, sector 57695096
In this forum, I found different approaches to keep the disc from spinning down (5 min cron on sdparm --command=start [dev]) but that didn't work out on my disc.

I've found a script @oleg (scsi-stop.sh), which does the spindown ... is there a way to have a scsi-start.sh which prevents the HDD from going asleep ?

Thank you

Zigster