Hi. On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 01:34:14PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il 02/01/19 12:15, Reco ha scritto: > > > What about this: > > DEVNAME=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS543225A7A384____E2024242DBNGWJ_ \ > > sh -x /lib/udev/hdparm >> /tmp/hdparm.log 2>&1 > > I had tried it, too, and it looks in line with the results:
Good news are - your configuration file comes into play: > + OPTIONS= -B1 -S6 Bad news are - /lib/hdparm/hdparm-functions screws you over: > + read KEY SEP VALUE > + [ -z /dev/sdb ] > + [ -n -B1 -S6 ] > + [ /dev/sdb = /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS543225A7A384____E2024242DBNGWJ_ > ] This corresponds to line 222 of aforementioned script: if [ -n "$OPTIONS" ] && [ "$DISC" = "$WANTED_DISK" ] then echo $OPTIONS return 0 fi You have options defined, but second comparison fails. $DISC seems to be defined at line 113: DISC=$(readlink -m "$KEY") DISC=${DISC%%[[:digit:]]*} And readlink 'helpfully' transforms your 'persistent' HDD name to /dev/sdb. So udev is not to blame here. It's shell-based config parsing library. > (copypasted because I found out only later that Thunderbird could not attach > files from /tmp because of AppArmor) Whitelist it. A file should be called /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.bin.thunderbird. > > > 2) am I wrong in testing with the symlink instead of the real device name? > > I'd rather remove this HDD via /sys interface as it's unused. > > Apart from the fact I don't know (yet) how to do that, what good would it do? echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/device/delete Assuming that your SATA controller is sane, it'll powerdown the drive until the next reboot or SATA bus scan. Reco