Winapp2.ini Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 I've been using this as my external for a few months, but I have an issue with it I can't work out. After 5 minutes of inactivity, it goes into power saving mode. I can't figure out how to disable this, and its not a huge issue, but I keep a lot of files on it and often move them to and from it. Also my music is on there, so if I were to play a song off my computer, pause and wait 5 minutes, I have to wait for the drive to come out of standby again google is not being my friend anyone have tips? winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmite Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Looks like it's a feature ... http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/samsung...er-95-20091015/ As in, it seems like it's the hardware rather than configuration. In the absence of any other info or ideas, the only suggestion I have is to knock up a program, even a noddy script, that accessed the drive (just a simple file access) periodically ... i.e. every 4:30-ish! Not great - but it would be almost zero overhead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winapp2.ini Posted January 28, 2010 Author Share Posted January 28, 2010 Hm, thanks I guess I can just throw together something in mSL I'm gonna do it here on *:START: { .timer 44640 270 writeini -c fileaccess.ini } Looks like that should write a blank file ever 4:30 for about a month every time I open mIRC winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmite Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Be in interesting to know if that 'keep alive' works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winapp2.ini Posted January 28, 2010 Author Share Posted January 28, 2010 in theory it should, I'll test it out now winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winapp2.ini Posted January 28, 2010 Author Share Posted January 28, 2010 on *:START: { .timer 44640 270 /writeini -n D:\file.ini test test test } works, it'll just keep overwriting that file over and over, lovely. thanks for the script idea winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmite Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Great By the looks of that article we're gonna see far more drives implementing that sort of circuitry so it's useful to know how to maintain 'constant on' if you need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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