haz0rd
I had this annoying problem of my external HD Always going to sleep:
I disabled power control on the usb port, changed my power policy to always on and nothing helped
found out that it's a hard coded timeout on the hard drive.
Here's something that may help my PC guys keep there hard-drive alive during gigs
I wrote a simple batch file that appends to a file on the drive every 2.5 Minutes
This will keep it active.
The Script uses sleep.exe you can grab a copy from microsoft.com if you don't already have one
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd
NOTE: You only need sleep.exe so if you want to you can install on another computer then copy sleep.exe to your gigtop
place the follow text in a file on your desktop called hdalive.bat
run it and leave the dos window up and minimized during your gigs.
replace f:\ with the drive letter of your removable drive
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@echo off
echo "Removing Old HD Alive File"
del f:\hdalivetest.txt
echo "Keeping your Media Drive F:\ Alive "
:loop
echo test >> f:\hdalivetest.txt
sleep 150
goto loop
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The batch file I use does a little more than just keep my hd alive
it:
1) Disables unwanted devices (extra soundcards, cams, networkcards)
2) Starts the HD Alive loop
Future Additions:
Start Virtual DJ
Have Fun Guys!!
DJ SMG!!
I disabled power control on the usb port, changed my power policy to always on and nothing helped
found out that it's a hard coded timeout on the hard drive.
Here's something that may help my PC guys keep there hard-drive alive during gigs
I wrote a simple batch file that appends to a file on the drive every 2.5 Minutes
This will keep it active.
The Script uses sleep.exe you can grab a copy from microsoft.com if you don't already have one
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd
NOTE: You only need sleep.exe so if you want to you can install on another computer then copy sleep.exe to your gigtop
place the follow text in a file on your desktop called hdalive.bat
run it and leave the dos window up and minimized during your gigs.
replace f:\ with the drive letter of your removable drive
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@echo off
echo "Removing Old HD Alive File"
del f:\hdalivetest.txt
echo "Keeping your Media Drive F:\ Alive "
:loop
echo test >> f:\hdalivetest.txt
sleep 150
goto loop
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The batch file I use does a little more than just keep my hd alive
it:
1) Disables unwanted devices (extra soundcards, cams, networkcards)
2) Starts the HD Alive loop
Future Additions:
Start Virtual DJ
Have Fun Guys!!
DJ SMG!!
geposted Tue 17 Aug 10 @ 9:33 am