[Leica] Windows 10 Annoyance

[Peter Dzwig]

Tina,

Can I ask a really silly question, please? Are you sure that it is W10 that
turns off the disks and not some other s/w or h/w? Could it be perhaps a disk
manager (separate from W10) that you run?

How are your disks connected to your W10 machine?

I have a number of (USB) disks connected to W10 and they don't spin down unless
I specifically turn them off. They all access the W10 box via a set of hubs. W10
doesn't attempt to control the hubs or the disks. Actually it can't because the
hubs - and most of the disks - are self-powered and don't draw power via the
machine. W10 knows that the hubs exist; it can tell me that what devices are
connected through the hubs, but it has no control over power-up and down.

My solution would be to ensure that the hubs are self powered and that the disks
are drawing power from the hubs and not from the W10 box.

Happy to take this off-line if you want to.

Regards,

Peter

On 28/09/2016 16:25, Tina Manley wrote:
> Yes, that was one of the fixes suggested by the Windows forums, but it
> doesn't work.  I've tried setting it to never turn off and all various
> times but nothing works.  Mine is My Custom Plan instead of Balanced and
> right now I have it set to never turn off - still does, though.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:21 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Try going into Control Panel > Power Options
>>
>> You are probably on 'Balanced'?
>>
>> Click on 'Change plan settings"
>>
>> Then "Changed advanced power settings"
>>
>> On my test machine it is set to turn off Hard disk after 20 minutes.......
>>
>> john
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> I am past the allowed time to switch back to Windows 7 easily.  I could
>> download it and reinstall it, but that would mean reinstalling all of my
>> programs.  The thought of that makes me very tired :-(
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:12 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> Don't use Windows 10?
>>>
>>> ;-) john
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.fr at leica-users.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Tina Manley
>>> Sent: Wednesday, 28 September 2016 5:08 p.m.
>>> To: MUGers at yahoogroups.com; Leica Users Group; paw; seephoto; Olympus
>>> Camera Discussion
>>> Subject: [Leica] Windows 10 Annoyance
>>>
>>> PESO:
>>>
>>> I am having a terrible problem with Windows 10.  All of my hard drives
>>> go to sleep after less than 5 minutes if I am not accessing them
>> constantly.
>>> Since I have 12 external drives set up with all of my photos on them,
>>> this is an extreme annoyance.
>>>
>>> I have read all of the supposed fixes proposed on all of the Windows
>>> sites and forums and none of them work.
>>>
>>> Do any of the geniuses here have any ideas?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> Tina
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
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