[PLUG] USB drive

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Tue Mar 5 03:41:18 UTC 2019


On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:06 PM Ken Stephens <kennethgstephens at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a USB drive housing with one drive in it.  When I plug it into my
> Fedora 28 Workstation, the system sits for quite a while before it
> recognizes it.  Is there something I can do to speed up the process?
>
> TIA,
> Ken
> ________


It might be that the drive in the housing is going to sleep and the delay
is the drive waking up. Here is some information about keeping it awake.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5211/prevent-a-usb-external-hard-drive-from-sleeping

Bill



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