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
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