On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:15:38PM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote: > 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. STOP SCSI command spins down the drive but the device is still `on'. The only way I found on Linux to shut down it's power is to put it into `suspend' mode. -- Li, Yan -- 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
