On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:51:05 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: [...] >> Incidently, the WD Passport drives support SG_IO, >> so things like hdparm and smartctl can work with them as well. > .. > > s/SG_IO/SG_IO+SAT/ The issue I noticed with the WD Passport drives is that the hard disk won't spin down with /usr/bin/eject, which is used by HAL if the user ejects the device (i.e. via his desktop environment). The WD Passport drives need to be set into a sleep power condition. Something like "sg_start --pc=3 /dev/sdX" needs to be used in this case. I just checked hdparm -Y, and this works too. 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
