On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 12:06 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 12/1/20 8:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 09:01 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 6:59 AM Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 14:52:21 +0100
> > > > Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > How do you power them down?
> > > > 
> > > > I don't know about the original poster, but my "noauto" disks
> > > > timeout and power down all by themselves, then even when they aren't
> > > > mounted at all, every time I reboot, the reboot hangs while it
> > > > spins up the disks for some reason. I constantly wish I could make
> > > > it stop doing that.
> > > 
> > > Enumeration. I'm not sure if it's udev scanning everything, or the
> > > kernel or both. And also maybe libblkid, to know what everything is.
> > > The only way it can know what it is, it needs to be spun up to read
> > > the partition map and all the signatures on each partition.
> > 
> > Obviously it needs to spin up if it needs to know these things. My
> > point is that it doesn't need to know them until I tell it.
> 
> But it can't know that it shouldn't until it knows what's there. :-)
> The kernel scanning the USB bus will trigger the dock to check the 
> drives which will spin them up.  Even if the dock didn't, the kernel 
> would still check the drives, so they would still be started.

OK, I can see that it's the scan that's the root of the problem.

poc
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