The soltuion was to disable the disk spindown with /usr/bin/X11/dxpower
Thanks to all who answered.
Dirk
-------- Original Message --------
> Last week I installed a 36GB IBM Ultrastar 36XP SCSI hard disk
> in a PWS 433au. The disk is working fine so far, but I have
> a little problem with it. The disk seems to spin down after
> a certain time of inactivity, which then results into NFS
> timeout errors the next time somebody tried to access the
> disk. Is there a way to prevent the disk from spinning down?
>
> If I can't find an answer, I will probably just install a
> cron job which touches a file on the disk every 5 minutes
> or so, but this solution is so ugly that I would like
> to avoid it.
Received on Fri May 07 1999 - 22:20:42 NZST