/diskspinner

Silly utility to prevent disks from going idle to work around bugs in USB-SATA hardware

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diskspinner

Silly little utility that keeps disks spinning in order to work around bugs in USB-to-SATA bridges that fail when the harddrive goes into idle mode.

One such unsavory combination turns out to be WD drives with DatOptic U3eSATA dongle. Other than the disconnect-on-idle problem the dongle works fine.

Usage

Install:

cp diskspinner@.service /usr/lib/systemd/system
cp diskspinner /usr/bin/

Configure to start automatically on boot:

systemctl enable diskspinner@sdX