hard disk problem

[lichterloh]

hi

we've bought two 'wd mybook' external hdd's, which work quite fine so far. the only problem: if we don't change the videos in the layers for a longer time and then trigger a new one the output happens to freeze for about 6 seconds. this doesn't happen on busy nights but gets annoying on the more easy ones. we suppose its a hd problem losing focus (though reading the vids played), taking a long time to come back. any solutions? is there something we can do to keep the hd "always on"?

cheers

[VJ Nexus]

your external hard drives could be going into power saving mode, and stop spinning. This is something built into windows to save power. It can be disabled, but i can't remember how off the top of my head right now, but a quick google search should solve the issue. I believe it's in the windows "power options" or maybe the properties of the device itself... hope this helps.

[coolhandloop]

the same thing happens to me i also have a wd mybook...it is a bit annoying when u leave the computer alone for a little while

[DAS BEN]

i have one external drive with the same problem. this is not caused by windows. it is a built in feature of the external drive.

[lichterloh]

so there is no information about this "feature" on wd's side- we thought about a programming approach, some small application which "pings" the hdd constantly, maybe already built into resolume? what do you guys think? any programmers willing to help? bart, edwin?

[DAS BEN]

one linux freak told me its possible to shut down the sleep mode. but i was to drunken to remember.

[VJzoo]

we have the same problem with our MYbooks and MYpassport drives and we have tried reformatting them FAT32 and NTFS and still have the same prob.

[frederico]

old topic and I do not have the WD mybook
found thishttp://kansasa.blogspot.com/2008/01/wes ... ition.html
I would need a pc expert for that
But maybe it helps(a little)

[Rags]

if you are needing to read off a portablu hdd the play a mp3 track from the hdd in loop mode. this will keep the disk spinnig and wont take up much transferbandwidth i have come across the same issue and this is my fix, not ideal but it works. And it's not very oftern i have to do it that way.....