Router + HDD

[zulis]

Hello,

I have successfully installed Gargoyle 1.3.5 + samba3 + ntfs-3g on mine wzr-hp-g300ng. I have connected Buffalo DriveStation external hard drive and I can access mine files. If I connect this external drive to PC and don’t use it for about 5 minutes hdd goes to “sleep” mode and wakes up immediately when I use it. If I connect it to the router, then hdd never goes to “sleep” mode and it's always active. I don’t like it. Do You know how to fix it? Thanks.

[DoesItMatter]

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=113670

Check that thread on OpenWRT about sleep mode

May have to install some external packages to get it to work.

I'll try this myself and see if I can get it to work.

Currently running 1.3.7 on a WZR-HP-G300NH

[zulis]

Thanks in advise DoesItMatter, but I'm getting errors with hdparm. So I used package hd-idle

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opkg install hd-idle
hd-idle -i 300

that does the trick! Here 300 is seconds.

[Eugen1968]

Hi,
But on the router restart hd-idle process disappear.
How I do : hd-idle process start automaticaly on router restart.
Thanks