Bob Walder

Bob Walder is Research Director for Gartner Inc., network security specialist, Mac/iPhone software developer, avid golfer, writer and gadget-loving technology freak living in the south of France

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December 20

Keep Drobo from sleeping

nuthatch:

My Drobo keeps falling asleep. It’s not in standby mode, but whenever Snow Leopard opens a file dialog, there is this huge pause while the drives in the Drobo spin up. I’m blocked. I listen to the four drives spin up and click into action. Then, finally, I’m allowed to use the file dialog. The process repeats throughout the day.

So here’s what I’m going to try. A little script:

#!/bin/bash
while [ true ]; do
# Keep Drobo from sleeping
touch /Volumes/Drobo/nosleep
sleep 300
done

And then from the command line:

$ /Volumes/Drobo/nosleep &

And that should do it. Every five minutes, the script will update the filesystem on the Drobo, hopefully keeping it awake.