Any news when spin down problem will be fixed? This keeps me stuck with
Intrepid.
Why priority of this bug is low? WEAR of inner moving parts of external drive
is in place if unplugging it without spinning down, no?
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WD external drives need to be spun down, "sdparm --command=stop" doesn't wor
sdparm commands:
sudo sdparm --command=sync /dev/sdXY
sudo sdparm --command=stop /dev/sdXY
...fail to stop external drive (despite exit codes equal to zero) after
upgrade to Jaunty (in Intrepid they work ok). My drive is WD Passport.
It seems now we (owners of external drives) are deprived of an
@Akos Ladanyi
*Transcend StoreJet* is not being stopped properly too (see Anton's comment
above: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/117713/comments/28)
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not proper dismounting for WD passport harddrive (making noise when unplug)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117713
You received this bug
Do we need to raise another bug report dedicated specifically to this problem
(sdparm commands don't stop external drive)?
There is 2 reports which mention this problem in discussion but they (reports)
are indirect (don't dedicated specifically to this problem): this report and
https://answers.l
