Bug 135999 - "Remove Safely" in KDE gives error. USB hard drives don't spin down when unounted.
Summary: "Remove Safely" in KDE gives error. USB hard drives don't spin down when uno...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 117945
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: Other SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Enhancement
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Assignee: Dr. Werner Fink
QA Contact: E-mail List
URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/noflu...
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Reported: 2005-11-30 06:23 UTC by Bryce Nesbitt
Modified: 2005-11-30 07:37 UTC (History)
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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 ***