I have no idea which kernel versions Ubuntu uses in its releases, but the recurring Hardware Error bug should be fixed in the 4.14 kernel. At least I think it should -- nobody has reported on whether the fix actually works, so I have no way of knowing.
As for the drive spontaneously waking up... You may not be aware of this, but the kernel periodically probes for drive events, even when no user process is accessing the drive. You can control the probe frequency by writing to the /sys/block/sd?/events_poll_msecs file (fill in the ? with the drive letter). -1 means to use the system default probing interval and 0 means to disable polling entirely. Now, I'm not saying that the kernel polling is what is waking up your drive. But it is something you need to know about. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1733068 Title: Unmounted USB drives wake up on 16.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1733068/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
