Usb penn shuts down

**Pyro_Killer** · July 5th, 2008

Hello, I have tried many forums, but cannot get an answer.

I have installed ubuntu 8.04 on my HP pavillion dv9041ea, on an 8gb usb device. It works GREAT, but there is a problem, if I am watching something that is not directly using the penn, it shuts down in a weird way. When I watch a movie from my harddrive using VLC, the usb penn, shuts down, and stops lighting. At this point my movie is still playing, my sesktop is still there, but I cannot do anything on my desktop, nothing opsens, and I can only shut down through the power button, because it can not find the shutdown program. At this stage, if i manually remove the system-usb-penn, with all the programs and the movie playing program, nothing happens, all seems normal until I try to open a program or shut it down.. When it has stopped lighting, nothing happens when I pull it out from the usb. If it was a hdd, it would restart, but the flash drive does not. Please help me, and this command, gives the the following result, but it still shuts down:

pyro@pyro-laptop:~$ sudo hdparm -S000 /dev/sda
[sudo] password for pyro:

/dev/sda:
setting standby to 0 (off)

Please help me, I am about to give it all up, and go back to XP...

**Pyro_Killer** · July 6th, 2008

Bump, I need an answer or anything.

When I download stuff to any harddrive, it does not shut down, but that is not an option.Is there any programs maybe that can emulate/fake activity on the hardrive, almoust like a dummyu downloader that downloads at 2-3bits a second? Creativity or code, give me something!!!

**Pyro_Killer** · July 14th, 2008

bump the lumpy humps, no answers?
BECAUSE I REALLY NEEED SOME!!

**Pyro_Killer** · July 27th, 2008

I am very disappointed in the service I have recived on the matter, but what I have concluded is that if azureus runs in the background, without trransferring data, but eating my ram, it does not shut off.