On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 22:00:23 +0800, Yan Li wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:56:43AM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote: > > With a WD My Passport drive (2,5"), I need to use sg_start --stop --pc=3 > > to stop the disk before unplugging it. Maybe this works with your > > drive, too. This is also required by some Firewire hard disks. Maybe > > the eject command should be extended to use this method, as it is used > > also by HAL to eject hotplug devices. > > Hum... I grepped my hal and hal-info packages but haven't found any > scripts using `sg_*'. I'm using hal package 0.5.11-6 from Debian > testing. HAL uses /usr/bin/eject, which doesn't set the power condition (as sg_start --pc=X does). So eject (and HAL) doesn't work with disks that require to set the power condition. Just try sg_start --stop --pc=3 /dev/sdX to see if it works for you. Regards, Tino -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html