[Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive
Hi everyone, I would like to implement the workaround that Kirill Belokurov wrote for KDE for this bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/117713) for thunar. Since this bug applies to only a very limited range of harddrives (I guess it's only the WD Passport series) no one has really cared for a bugfix (yet). Anyways, I think that it could be sufficient as a workaround to: - either have a customised action in thunar only be applied to this specific drive and spinning it down - or trying to hack whatever function is used by thunar to eject media like usb-harddrives so that it would not just unmount but also spindown the drive. If anyone here has a suggestion which of the two options is way to go, that would be great. Also I'm not sure whether I could implement either of the two options without your help. Thanks for taking notice, Simon ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 15:33:11 +0200, Simon Steinbeiß wrote: [...] Anyways, I think that it could be sufficient as a workaround to: - either have a customised action in thunar only be applied to this specific drive and spinning it down - or trying to hack whatever function is used by thunar to eject media like usb-harddrives so that it would not just unmount but also spindown the drive. Forgot to ask one thing: do you have an eject button for your drive, or only unmount? The Xfce 4.4.2 release was somewhat buggy regarding the detection of removable media and providing the eject funktion in the GUI. If you only see unmount in the context menu of the drive, you could try exo-eject in the command line to see if that works for you. Regards, Tino ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 16:30:10 +0200, Simon Steinbeiß wrote: [...] As mentioned above, I do see the eject button. Anyways, I tried exo-eject to see whether this would give me a more comprehensive error message, well here it is (the command I ran was exo-eject -h SAME_AS_BELOW -e): Failed to eject /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_WD_1200BEVExternal_575845333037343330353232_0_0. No property info.interfaces on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_WD_1200BEVExternal_575845333037343330353232_0_0. Could you post the output of lshal while the drive is attached and mounted? Regards, Tino ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive
Could you post the output of lshal while the drive is attached and mounted? here you go: http://pastebin.org/32767 (I tried to highlight the relevant lines) greetings, simon ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:45:40 +0200 Tino Keitel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about exo-eject /dev/wdpassport ? tried that before, gives me: exo-eject: Must specify HAL device UDI or device file. greetings, simon ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:51:07PM +, Simon Steinbeiß wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:45:40 +0200 Tino Keitel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about exo-eject /dev/wdpassport ? tried that before, gives me: exo-eject: Must specify HAL device UDI or device file. exo-eject -d /dev/wdpassport -- Yves-Alexis ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:07:59 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:51:07PM +, Simon Steinbeiß wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:45:40 +0200 Tino Keitel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about exo-eject /dev/wdpassport ? tried that before, gives me: exo-eject: Must specify HAL device UDI or device file. exo-eject -d /dev/wdpassport Thanks Yves-Alexis; unfortunately I get the same result as with using the HAL device UDI... greetings, simon ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive
Simon Steinbeiß wrote: Could you post the output of lshal while the drive is attached and mounted? here you go: http://pastebin.org/32767 (I tried to highlight the relevant lines) Your device has storage.requires_eject=false -- so exo-eject won't do anything but unmount all volumes. Give 'eject -v /dev/whatever' a try *as root*. Often the SCSI eject command will work on drives like that. See if it fixes your problem. If it does, you might try adding a HAL .fdi file to your system that will set requires_eject properly for your drive. -brian ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 20:22:18 +0200, Simon Steinbeiß wrote: [...] Tried sudo eject -v /dev/wdpassport with the output that the eject succeeded. (see the full output here: http://pastebin.org/32834) Anyhow, when I unplugged the usb-cable (that is also powering the hdd) it made this awful sound described in the bugreport mentioned earlier. So it seems eject simply doesn't spin down the harddrive. Should it? From theory, if you use eject -s, eject sends a START STOP UNIT command, which should spin it down. I'll try to check it myself tomorrow. Btw., I attached an example fdi file for my card reader, to add the requires_eject property. Maybe HAL does the right thing if you adopt it to your hard disk and copy it to /etc/hal/fdi/policy (check with lshal if it is really set) and then use exo-eject. Regards, Tino ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
