Update to my current Firefly setup:
@Donald wrote:
Now back on track I’m going to monitor the HD for spindown and research FLASH USB longevity in the NSLU2.
Donald
Until today I’ve been using a “free”, after rebate, USB enclosure which I couldn’t get to spin down.
I purchased a Maxtor OneTouch III today and attached it to my NSLU2 port 2 (port 1 has a 512MB flash drive) replacing the prior USB enclosure, and formatted using the Unslung interface.
Using information I got from:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/SpinDownUSBHarddisks
I got:
http://www.ext2fsd.com/
I connected the Maxtor to my XP machine and ran ext2fsd.
It worked great for allowing XP to see the new ext formatted drive and allowed me to run the Maxtor spindown utility and set the spindown time.
Better yet I was able to connect my old ext formatted drive to the XP machine and run ext2fsd on that drive then copy all my music and videos directly to the new drive now connected to the NSLU2! What a great program. I pretty much thought I had to copy all my data to a third drive and recopy to the new. What a relief.
And yes – the Maxtor spins down as programmed.
Donald