I have a Western Digital external hard drive (wdxb1600jbrnn) that has a "safe shutdown" feature. This feature prevents the drive from being powered off while a write operation is in progress. However, this does not work for me under linux. When I press the power button to turn the drive off, the light blinks a few times and the drive remains on. This happens even after all write operations are complete and I've unmounted the drive. The only way I know to turn it off is to unplug the power cable.
Is there a way I can turn this drive off with the power button instead of by unplugging the cable? I am using kernel version 2.6.11. Will a newer kernel solve this problem? Thanks. Joey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
