[Leica] Windows 10 Annoyance

[Tina Manley]

Thanks, Peter.  My hubs are not self-powered.  I guess that's the problem.
I'll order a self-powered hub and see if that fixes the problem

Thanks!

Tina

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>
wrote:

> 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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