On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:46:47 +0100
frantisek holop <minusf@obiit.org> wrote:

quoted text
> hi there,
> 
> i have a usb external disk that spins down grotesquely
> soon, 10s of inactivity sends it sleeping.  hearing the
> disk spin up every time makes me think how soon it will
> die if i keep this up for long.
> 
> as atactl is not working for external ata disks used
> through the scsi layer, i was wondering if anyone has
> an idea of how to keep the disk spinning in a way that
> read and write performance doesn't suffer too much.
> 
> -f


#!/bin/ksh
while [ true ]
do
 touch /mountpoint/file
 sleep 10
done

:)

- Robert