usb external disk

Hello,

I have a problem, I don't know how it is related with digikam.

in short, when an external usb disk is sleeping or not mounted, digikam
do not trigger the mount/awake procedure and simply thnik the disk is no
more here.

I have this mostly with a 4Tb disk, very long to launch.

I can't even mount it on start (from fstab), the system bypass it.

But Dolphin manage it bery well, so kde seems to have the tools to do it
and I guess Digikam should also do it.

this morning, I openned the disk in dolphin, then launched digikam.
Digikam rescan the disk (approx one hour work).

one hour later, digika m says "impossible to load photos" from this
disk, it's sleeping. I go to dolphin and clic on the disk, it loads and
then digikam sees it

it's digikam 3.5 - I don't really like the idea of upgrading to new
digikam/kde

but is this still the case on newer digikam?

thanks
jdd
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jdd
This sounds like an OS issue, not a Digikam one
I too have mounted/unmounted drives via Dolphin, but it seems Dolphin has a separate interaction with the OS to do it.
I'd suggest you search your distro's forum for something like "booting OS from a USB drive" or "auto mount USB hdd to filesystem"
I suspect the answer will involve a custom udev rule.
Perhaps there you can also stop the drive from going to sleep(and disconnecting)

On 11/12/2014 06:51 AM, jdd wrote:

Hello,

I have a problem, I don't know how it is related with digikam.

in short, when an external usb disk is sleeping or not mounted, digikam do not trigger the mount/awake procedure and simply thnik the disk is no more here.

I have this mostly with a 4Tb disk, very long to launch.

I can't even mount it on start (from fstab), the system bypass it.

But Dolphin manage it bery well, so kde seems to have the tools to do it and I guess Digikam should also do it.

this morning, I openned the disk in dolphin, then launched digikam. Digikam rescan the disk (approx one hour work).

one hour later, digika    m says "impossible to load photos" from this disk, it's sleeping. I go to dolphin and clic on the disk, it loads and then digikam sees it

it's digikam 3.5 - I don't really like the idea of upgrading to new digikam/kde

but is this still the case on newer digikam?

thanks
jdd
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