"NY"  writes:
> I've got a USB hard drive (Intenso 320GB 2.5") which is plugged into
> my Pi. It auto-mounts to /media/pi/ but I umount it from
> there and manually mount it to a folder /mnt/recordings where it is
> used as the destination for TV recordings made by TVheadend.
>
> I've noticed that at random times (not related to movement of the USB
> connection between drive and the Pi), the drive disconnects
> itself. The first I know is when I see a pop-up dialogue "Removable
> media is inserted -
> Open in File Manager". It remounts to /media/pi/ - always the same
> ID. However I notice that the raw device /dev/sda and sda1 changes to
> /dev/sdb(1) and then sdc(1), and so on for each successive
> disconnection and reconnection.

I think you have a loose connection or a faulty controller (on one side
or the other).

> I was going to reconfigure TVheadend to refer to the /media/pi/
> mount point, but there's something that prevents TVHeadend working in
> this case, even though I can "ls" the files on the drive and the mount
> point has 777 permissions.
>
> Any suggestions? The drive is formatted as NTFS. Could that be
> relevant: does NTFS have some sort of auto-dismount capability.

The successive device names imply that this is about the device, nothing
to do the filesystem on it.

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