{"id":6252,"date":"2023-09-25T16:05:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T21:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2023-09-25T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T21:05:23","slug":"usb-drives-dont-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/information-technology\/usb-drives-dont-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 22.04 USB Drives Don&#8217;t Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/releases.ubuntu.com\/jammy\/\">Ubuntu 22.04 <\/a>really screwed the pooch when it comes to external drives. USB drives don&#8217;t sleep anymore. Install the Linux Mint version based on this same LTS and it doesn&#8217;t have the problem. I mean this pooch is hosed so bad you can&#8217;t even see SMART settings in Gnome Disks.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"425\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ubuntu-disks-no-SMART.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ubuntu-disks-no-SMART.png 425w, https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ubuntu-disks-no-SMART-300x252.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Work Around<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use Synaptic Package Manager and install hd-idle. If you don&#8217;t have Synaptic Package Manager use that icky Ubuntu Software thing to install Synaptic Package Manager so you never again have to use that icky Ubuntu Software thing.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"929\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ubuntu-hd-idle.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ubuntu-hd-idle.png 929w, https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ubuntu-hd-idle-300x63.png 300w, https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ubuntu-hd-idle-768x160.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 929px) 100vw, 929px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technically you should find out the UUID using blkid, but I didn&#8217;t. My external drive is always connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code lang=\"bash\" class=\"language-bash\">sudo nano \/etc\/default\/hd-idle<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ubuntu-hd-idle-conf.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ubuntu-hd-idle-conf.png 723w, https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ubuntu-hd-idle-conf-300x292.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By default the line in white has &#8220;-h&#8221; so this doesn&#8217;t run. My external drive is sdc. If you think you want all of your external drives to sleep after 10 minutes simply use &#8220;-i 600.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code lang=\"bash\" class=\"language-bash\">sudo systemctl enable hd-idle\nsudo systemctl start hd-idle<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wait however many minutes you set it for and the external drive should go to sleep. Without this USB drives don&#8217;t sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This Hack Doesn&#8217;t Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code lang=\"bash\" class=\"language-bash\">sudo hdparm -S 10 \/dev\/sdc\n\n\/dev\/sdc:\n setting standby to 10 (50 seconds)\nSG_IO: bad\/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It should, but it don&#8217;t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those of us who live in rural America where Internet services max out at 25Mbs down and 3Mbs up never backup to the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professionals with real IT degrees from real schools know that only the heir to the throne in the kingdom of idiots would consider &#8220;backing up to the cloud&#8221; putting all of their data in the hands of North Korean\/Russian\/insert-nationality-here hackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu 22.04 really screwed the pooch when it comes to external drives. 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