care to describe the error? i suspect it may be hardware error. just post your dmesg after u plug in the hardware device. perhaps do a lsusb -vv and show us the details of the drive? For automatically mounting filesystem, if u are on ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab (just update the fstab file) is one option. Alternatively is automount (and using autofs kernel module) is another option. If u are on linux kernel 3.1.0 (mine) the kernel module is called autofs4, not sure what is the difference, but nevertheless just do a "modprobe autofs" (not default loaded for me): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler@tysdomain.com> wrote:

Hello all, I have a quick question. When I do a ls on this drive and it's spun down, i get an i/o error. I'm curious if there's a way to write a module or do something to make the drive wake up when I do a r/w request on it? I've had an external and it never had this problem. I also know i could modify the scsi params to make it not sleep, but that doesn't work and that is not the best of ideas anyway. I like it sleeping, I don't even mind waiting for an LS. It's just hard to manage when i have to umount -l the directory, then figure out what sd* dev it's on.

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