On Sat, 2021-03-13 at 08:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > Of course it's possible that sending some command to the dock would > > power down the drives, but the thing has no useful documentation. > > It > > just comes with (of course) a Windows driver. > > OK.... My understanding is that the HW you have doesn't power-down > or power-up (wake-up) in response to an unmount or mount operation. Does any hardware do this when connected via USB? > So, in the case of automount/autounmount you need "something" to > > issue power-up command followed by mount > > and > > unmount followed by issue power-down command Exactly. > So, it does sound to me your configuration is very "non-standard" and > not common. > It also sounds like you're trying to workaround deficiencies in HW > that seems to have > been designed with Windows in mind. Not surprising in itself of course, but I have to wonder if there exist external docks which work better with Linux in this regard. > I don't think systemd was meant to solve these sorts of issues And > a kludge is more > fitting than trying to shoehorn in a standard tool. Of course you > then, potentially, > have to maintain the kludge. I used to do that. But no longer. I > found other "hobbies". :-) Thanks Ed. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
