Re: Adding rules, scripts, etc. to udev/hal

[Serguei Miridonov <mirsev@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 12 December 2007, Serguei Miridonov wrote:
> The situation: External USB hard drive (WD Passport) mounts
> automatically when connected, works OK, and unmounts when
> choosing "Safely Remove" on the icon menu...
>
> However, it does not stop spinning after unmounting and
> disconnecting the USB cable makes the drive to do emergency
> heads parking. To stop the drive I have to use "sdparm -C
> stop /dev/sdb" before disconnecting.
>
> Is there any way to do this automatically? Any user guide to
> udev/hal subsystems?
>
> Thanks.

I tried to rewrite HAL rules with attached 
files /etc/hal/fdi/policy/50-wdpassport.fdi 
and /usr/lib/hal/scripts/hal-wdpassport-remove but it does not help. 
The drive makes an attempt to stop spinning but it seems hal or udev 
touch it again and it continue to spin.

Any help?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="@info.parent:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
      <match key="info.product" string="WD Passport">
        <!--append key="info.callouts.remove" type="strlist">hal-wdpassport-remove</append-->
        <remove key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names" type="strlist">Unmount</remove>
        <remove key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames" type="strlist">extra_options</remove>
        <remove key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures" type="strlist">as</remove>
        <remove key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-unmount</remove>
        
        <append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names" type="strlist">Unmount</append>
        <append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames" type="strlist">none</append>
        <append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures" type="strlist">as</append>
        <append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-wdpassport-remove</append>
      </match>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

Attachment: hal-wdpassport-remove
Description: application/shellscript

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