I have had the same problem which I solved in earlier versions of Kubuntu using the following script #!/bin/bash # exec >/dev/null 2>&1 exec 2>&1 pumount $1 || umount $1 sdparm --command=sync $1 sdparm --command=stop $1
This worked fine until I moved to Jaunty and now it no longer works - sdparm seems to do nothing although there is a small 'blip' when the stop command is executed so maybe, as others mentioned, the drive does stop and then restarts again. I am using a WD drive (maybe as passport, I bought it some time ago and it just has WD printed on it). There are a couple of ext3 partitions only on it. This has been a long standing issue and it is worrying that it may result in hardware damage and/or data loss but it is only set at a low priority. Please raise the priority of this issue Thanks -- WD external drives need to be spun down, "sdparm --command=stop" doesn't work any more https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117713 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
