Hello,

i have a problem with external harddisk (SATA 3.5 Western Digital 1Tb with external box ORICO)

the harddisk is swithed in pause after no utilisation of many minutes, when i want to access with MorphOS, the power of the harddisk restart.

Is it possible with MorphOS to force the harddisk to stay swith on always?

Thanks for your return.



[ Edité par Papiosaur 06.12.2021 - 14:24 ]

There's an IDEStandby command in C:. Try something like
Code:

That said, it's most likely that the USB case itself is doing something odd there and not the HDD itself.

In fact it is windows that puts a hardisk in standby, usually if you put it in a position to put a hardisk in standbay.
an external hard drive when you turn it on always goes
I think this is a problem with the external case

Thanks a lot for your returns

@jaca: seems to work ! thanks a lot !

[ Edité par Papiosaur 06.12.2021 - 16:25 ]

Re,

MorphOS stop at startup (boot logo) with external harddisk, possibility to fix that ?

Not without additional details. What kind of partition layout does it use? What file systems? Are you sure there isn't a partition marked as bootable on the disk?

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If it is a Fat32/MBR formatted drive which is marked as (Dos-)bootable, there is a chance that it hangs in the boot process because it can't find any system files. In the end, It depends on the boot priority of the actual system partition (which should be higher). It might even extend to other filesystems with an MBR-formatted drive, I just remember that I ran into such issues in the past. Just a guess, though ....

Hi cyfm,

partition HDO is SFS bootable