On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Joey Morris wrote: > I have a Western Digital external hard drive > (wdxb1600jbrnn) that has a "safe shutdown" feature. > This feature prevents the drive from being powered off > while a write operation is in progress. However, this > does not work for me under linux. When I press the > power button to turn the drive off, the light blinks a > few times and the drive remains on. This happens even > after all write operations are complete and I've > unmounted the drive. The only way I know to turn it > off is to unplug the power cable. > > Is there a way I can turn this drive off with the > power button instead of by unplugging the cable? I am > using kernel version 2.6.11. Will a newer kernel solve > this problem?
Perhaps you need to run the "eject" program. Even though the drive doesn't have removable media, it might use the eject command as a signal to enable the power button. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
