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How to keep an external hard drive spinning?

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I have an external USB hard drive plugged in, and after a few minutes, when there's been no activity against it, it automatically spins down, stops, and is unmounted. Is there a way to keep it spinning so I don't lose the mount?

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answered 2 Years ago edgehogight · Accepted Answer

I had been looking for that answer for a Seagate FreeAgent drive, the 2 answers I found were 1) use the Seagate utility on a Windows machine to disable auto-spindown, or this page which explains how to do the same on Linux using sdparm. (but as psusi pointed out, when the drive goes into auto-spindown it shouldn't unmount, at least on recent kernels.