Bug 135999

Summary:	"Remove Safely" in KDE gives error. USB hard drives don't spin down when unounted.
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
URL:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/noflushd/
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Description Bryce Nesbitt 2005-11-30 06:23:59 UTC

It simply does not feel safe to just unplug a spinning hard drive.

If I insert a USB hard drive, it spins up, and mounds.
"Remove safely" from KDE gives "device not in fstab", and the drive keeps spinning.

It would be great if SUSE could cause the drive to spin down (e.g. hdparm -y /dev/xxxx or sdparm --command=stop /dev/sda or http://sourceforge.net/projects/noflushd/ or hdarm -S1 /dev/sda ).

Comment 1 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-11-30 07:37:45 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> It would be great if SUSE could cause the drive to spin down (e.g. hdparm -y
> /dev/xxxx or sdparm --command=stop /dev/sda or
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/noflushd/ or hdarm -S1 /dev/sda ).

No, we will not support this by default within our current mount process. If you want to use this feature, do it manually. Btw. I don't know any USB harddisk controller which support set command with hdparm over USB.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117945 ***