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Disabling of sleep on external disk using sdparm so that they do not disconnect in middle of transactions (e.g. WD_My_Book_25ED)
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Usage: sdparm-disable_sleep.sh <device> | |
| [[ -n "${1}" && -b "${1}" ]] \ | |
| && sdparm --flexible --page=po -l -a "${1}" \ | |
| && { sdparm --set=STANDBY_Z=0 -S "${1}" \ | |
| && sdparm --set=SZCT=$((45*60*100)) -S "${1}" \ | |
| && sdparm --flexible --page=po -l -a "${1}"; } |
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Doesn't actually fix things completely, but might make it better. I for one will think twice before buying more Western Digital disks.