Hard disk Standby

jimmyflo · #1 (**permalink**) 01-14-2005

Hallo,
I Have a real problem with my Hard disk. I Have installed an Hydra zeus image and I have maxtor 160 GB Hard disk. Every time when the disk come out of Standby, my db freeze!!

Can anyone hel me??

Many Thank's

Jimmy

Robert999 · #2 (**permalink**) 01-15-2005

I have the same problem, found no solution yet...
7000S, maxtor 160, Hydra Zeus

Regards,
Robert

azamsaghir1 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-15-2005

I have a Maxtor 120GB HDD in my Dreambox and the box often freezes when you wake up the HDD from SLEEP mode. This happens usually when you leave the box unattended for a period of time. Overnight for example.

Because my HDD is not noisy in my environment I tend to manually prevent the HDD from going into SLEEP. If you Telnet the following:

/sbin/hdparm -S 250 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

That keeps the HDD in active/idle state for 5 hours. The whole performance of the box is better in such a state.

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to just keep the HDD running than to stop/start by waking up the HDD and suffering annoying box crashes.

Just make sure you archive the recordings you wish to keep.

Regards
Azam

theblob · #4 (**permalink**) 01-15-2005

@azamsaghir1
thanks for that m8 ive been wondering how to do that is there anyway to stop it going to standy at all?

pikip · #5 (**permalink**) 01-15-2005

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Originally Posted by theblob

ive been wondering how to do that is there anyway to stop it going to standy at all?

Easy:

/sbin/hdparm -S 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

Robert999 · #6 (**permalink**) 01-15-2005

It works like a charme... don't forget to reboot

Thanks
Robert

theblob · #7 (**permalink**) 01-16-2005

Thanks for that

jimmyflo · #8 (**permalink**) 01-18-2005

Sorry all....but how to save the settings??

Many thank's!!

pekker · #9 (**permalink**) 03-28-2006

my standby in davinchi 5.2 has a problem

i installed original image on flash and using flashwizard i added my davinchi on the hard disk.

when the system goes standby, the hardrive turns off and then instantly on again and stays on.

is that because the active image is on the hard drive?
is there any way to keep it to standby? it makes a buzzing noise which pisses me off while watching dvds...

pandragorn · #10 (**permalink**) 03-29-2006

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is that because the active image is on the hard drive?

Yes ! Better install others images on Usb .