In my experience it is a bit difficult to find the cause of a non-sleeping drive, and lsof rarely helps. Yep thats true. I think with ownCloud the drive sleeps well. Sometimes when it doesn't and you can't figure out why, I simply access the drive once and then close any open Explorer/Finder window...

Yeah. Its still serving its purpose though. I mostly use it to share my Kicad and programming libraries between machines on the LAN and I don't have to keep carrying data on USB drives to copy updated libraries across machines. Before owncloud became the only file sharing method, I tried some media ...

Well I do see the point about the drive not sleeping but the drive becomes very hot when its not sleeping. With my WD 1TB drive the wake up times are pretty fast. The last time I accessed the drive from sleep it came up in less than 2s. Didn't know that the ethernet and usb shared the same channel. ...

I'm a Raspberry Pi newbie and I have been experimenting for a few days now. My primary use is to use the Pi as a file server within my home network. I mounted my external HDD and setup Webmin with Samba and Netatalk for file sharing between the Pi, my Window 7 machines and my Macbook Pro. I soon rea...

I figured this out. The connector was not properly connected and hence I couldn't see anything on the DSO

I'm a newbie to the world of RPi and I'm trying the PWM functionality with the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. I'm using this guide: http://www.toptechboy.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-lesson-27-analog-voltages-using-gpio-pwm-in-python to do that. I also recently bought a digital oscilloscope. Now I'm tryin...