help me keep my esata HDD from spinning down

[themisfit610]

Hey guys,

SO I have a 1TB Caviar black for my OS drive, and a pair of Seagate 1.5TB 7200.11 drives for data. One of these is internal on my Intel ICH10R, and the other is hooked up via eSATA to the JMicron controller.

Performance is fine, hotswap works great, no problems there.

The only thing is, the esata drive will frequently spin down! If I don't use it for ~30 mins or so, it spins down and then I have to listen to it spin up and wait 5 seconds until I can use it. Very annoying, and I like to just keep all my drives spinning anyway..

I tried looking at the drive with SeaTools, thinking maybe it was an acoustic / power management thing, but saw nothing that I could tweak.

At this point I'm thinking it has something to do with the JMicron chipset, or its drivers.

Any suggestions?

Thx
MiSfit

 

[tweakboy]

I dont know of such thing I got a Lacie 500GB black design by Nel Poulton hooked up eSATA to jmicron no problems. Thanks and gg and gb

 

[tweakboy]

ur power managment might be kickin in.. go to control panel and power options,, then change it to never .... hmmm hope it was just this... if not any more input is welcome. thank you and gb

 

[themisfit610]

I solved this by simply making the drive internal..

Actually I put it with another 1.5TB drive into RAID0