[Leica] Windows 10 Annoyance

[Tina Manley]

Oops.  I misspoke.  My hubs are self-powered.  They each have an individual
power plug.

The disks are connected to the computer through self-powered usb strips
that have 15 ports each.

I don't have any separate disk manager that I know of.  This  problem of
the external drives going to sleep is very common and is discussed on all
of the Windows forums.  Nobody has come up with a solution that works yet.

I'm going to have to go back to W7, I guess but I'll wait until I have a
week free to do it!!

Tina

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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