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    Hacking Super Mario Galaxy - let's compare notes about crashing with usb l

    Using a WD My Book 1TB Essential with a 500GB WBFS partition. Never had the crash at the UFO. Had crashing after about 10-15 minutes of play. I used hdparm to change the spindown timer to 5 1/2 hours, and it seems to have cured all the crashes. using USB loader 1.1, PAL Rip, 3.2U firmware. (PAL...
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    Hacking Guide: WD Passport Spindown Fix

    This works for me it seems. Using a WD 1TB Essential. Had crashing in Galaxy, but after applying the fix I played it 3 hours straight with no problems whatsoever.
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    Hacking USB Drives going to sleep

    Why, thank you for that suggestion Ran the command: hdparm -S251 /dev/hda This sets the standby timer to 5 1/2 hours, and is the highest possible. I really shouldn't be having gaming sessions that long, so it should be plenty! Been playing Galaxy for about an hour now and no crashes so far...
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    Hacking USB Drives going to sleep

    I opened up my WD 1TB Essential, and connected the HDD to my SATA controller. Accessing it with hdparm -I gave me the following: Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum Tried turning off the standby timer with: hdparm -S0 /dev/hda Got a confirmation that i was...
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    Hacking wanted: usb loader + refuse usb to sleep

    I seem to be having the same problems with my Western Digital 1TB Essential, which is also listed as working in the compatibility wiki. Tried to turn off the sleep mode, but it is not possible with this drive as it's a feature built into the hardware of the enclosure. A solution to this would...
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    Hacking USB Drives going to sleep

    That would probably solve the problem. I've read about users doing this with a small script to counter drives spinning down when used on a computer. Just hope it's possible with the launcher.
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    Hacking USB Drives going to sleep

    Look into sdparm. A bit diffucult to use i think, but it might do the job.
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    Hacking USB Drives going to sleep

    I use a WD My Book 1TB Essential, and have been experiencing freezing in de Blob and Secret Files: Tunguska. I've been looking into this issue for some time, and it's not looking good. The sleep function of the My Book series is apparently built into the hardware of the enclosure. No tool to...
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    Hacking usb loader freezing with all games after short times??

    I use Wi-Fi, and have had random crashes in Secret Files: Tunguska and de Blob. I was however playing with WiiConnect24 turned on; I have now turned it off and will report back if this cures the problem. I'm using a 1TB WD My Book with a 500GB WPFS partition. I do however believe this may be...
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