[Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive

2008-04-29 Thread Simon Steinbeiß
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

Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive

2008-04-29 Thread Tino Keitel
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

Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive

2008-04-29 Thread Tino Keitel
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):

Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive

2008-04-29 Thread Simon Steinbeiß
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

Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive

2008-04-29 Thread Simon Steinbeiß
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

Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive

2008-04-29 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
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

Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive

2008-04-29 Thread Simon Steinbeiß
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

Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive

2008-04-29 Thread Brian J. Tarricone
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

Re: [Thunar-dev] eject usb-harddrive

2008-04-29 Thread Tino Keitel
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