\t\t\t\tWhen I put a FRITZ!Box 7390 in place here more than 2 years ago,\u00a0one of the features I discovered with big joy\u00a0and that I started to make use of,\u00a0was that it powers down USB attached ATA disks after a user defined period of inactivity.\u00a0You can also have a USB hub in between,\u00a0and I started making use of that as well.<\/p>\n
The ATA disk (#1) I attached, is actually a notebook disk with its own external housing.\u00a0It got formatted with ext2, because I prefer that over the DOS file system.<\/p>\n
In the beginning of 2012 that disk (#1) was no longer accessible.\u00a0First I was sure, that it had died the clicking death.\u00a0But when I attempted to replace it with another one (#2),
\nit turned out, the source of irritation was actually the USB hub,\u00a0because after eliminating the USB hub and attaching disk #2 directly to the FRITZ!Box\u00a0disk #2 was “perfectly” accessible again.<\/p>\n
So I gave disk #1 another try,\u00a0mounted it somewhere else,\u00a0and that worked without problem.<\/p>\n
I thought, I should note this somewhere, because it might occur to others as well.<\/p>\n
Of course, why should live USB hubs live for ever? But I was rather, rather astonished to understand this scenario.<\/p>\n
Well, it’s not absolutely unlikely, that disk #1 will die for ever after being in use in another environment for another while. That’s a behavior I found documented elsewhere.<\/p>\n
No, the housing (external case) wasn’t the reason for the problem, at least it worked with other disks.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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