I have an old laptop where I installed Debian along with a samba server which I am using to share read-write access to 4 external hard drives, which I use to stream my media from. All works fine, except for when the other 3 drives have spun down and a request is sent to a file on one of them.  The file system seems to block all access to any device until the drive has spun up. So, my question is, is it possible to prevent the blocking from occurring while the drive is spinning up?
Preventing access blocking while external HDD spins up?
debian;filesystems;samba;external hdd