How to turn off power management for external hard drive (Seagate GoFlex)?
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I bought this 2tb Segate GoFlex this last Black Friday and since then every 15 minutes or so the drive spins down, and then a little while later completely dismounts. Very annoying. From what I understand you could turn this off using the including Windows and Mac only software. This function and what controls it isn't proprietary, right? There has to be something that'll let me set it in Ubuntu... Anyone have any suggestions?
Also, I formatted it to EXT4. Hope I didn't screw myself up. :/
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