just installed Kubuntu 15.10
this bug is still present
udisksctl power-off -b /dev/sdg will do as expected and spin a drive down
Status was incomplete and now expired. What further info is needed to
confirm this bug after being around for at least 7 or so years?
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Peter, please do not apport-collect to another person's report, as you
are not the original reporter.
Linux Mint has a different procedure and location for tracking bug
reports. If you want to file a report against Mint, please do so via
their bug tracker located at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linu
I am not currently using Kubuntu but Linux Mint 17 - safe removal, using the
device notifier (plasma desktop), still does not spin down removable drives.
udisks --detach /dev/sdb does still work though
Just installing apport and will run it once done
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Clément Léger, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Intrepid reached EOL
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See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
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Is this still and issue in a supported release? If so, could you please execute
the following command, a
I have the same problem in Elementary OS (based on ubuntu).
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exactly the same issue with Fedora 17 - udisks works from the command
line but palimpsest is not available in yum
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I couldn't agree more with Peter (comment #76).
This problem still seems to exist in Kubuntu 12.04.
I just bought a Seagate Expansion drive 1 TB and while the little USB
device notifier plasmoid dutifully unmounts the drive and reports that
it is safe to remove it, the drive is still spinning and
Kubuntu Oneiric
Click the nice little device manager plasmoid and click the remove arrow for an
external hard drive (in this case a toshiba) and it very helpfully says you can
now safely remove the device.
Still does not spin the drive down though.
udisks does and so does the gnome disk utility
Yes, me too. Oneiric has the same problem.
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To ma
I can confirm that safe removal still does not work in Oneiric.
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Keoni
I can confirm that safe removal still does not work in Natty but that the Gnome
disk utilities (Palimpsest) still does work, if you install it along with the
various Gnome dependencies. I agree it is a serious usability issue as
a) should not need to install anything else to do this
b) it s
Aloha.
Natty Narwhal is here, and still my USB Harddrive doesn't stop spinning
after eject even when it hasn't been used.
Also, it doesn't spin down when the computer is suspended.
Serious usability issue.
Ubuntu 11.04
Lacie Rugged External Drive - USB 2, FIrewire (both types)
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Thanks for that info.
Yes, I can confirm that you can remove a hard drive, in Kubuntu10.4, using
either udisks (as above) or using the gnome disk utility (even further above).
Why oh why does this STILL not happen automatically when you use the
normal safe removal option? Kubuntu is a graphical f
In case anyone wonders like I did about the whereabouts of devkit-disks
in lucid: the package devicekit-disks no longer exists in lucid, the
whole thing is now called udisks.
So removing the drive in lucid can accordingly be done via 'udisks
--detach /dev/sdX'
HTH
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I am pretty sure this bug is the same as
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sdparm/+bug/444818 although
the success reports with the posted scripts in earlier comments are
confusing as they should not be working if that is the case. In any case
that one should prevent all USB disks from spin
Hi all,
i followed the recent idea by Peter and spinning down using devkit-disks
on the console worked like a charm for me. Nevertheless this is only
half way through since i cannot invoke spinning up the disk again. Does
anybody have an idea why the disk cannot be awoken by using the devkit-
disk
You're welcome :-)
I found just a minor (packaging, policy?) issue for Kubuntu/Xubuntu etc.
users: I don't know if devicekit-disks is officially supported as part
of the desktop task.
For Kubuntu at least (which I don't use myself, please verify what I
say), only the package 'usb-creator-kde' act
Peter, I second your thought that devkit-disks should be called by the
GUI tools that help safely remove external storage devices.
After some quick testing, devkit-disks seems to solve all the problems
I've described above. Thanks for the information, Alain!
Cheerz, Martin
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Thanks for that - I had not heard of devkit-disks before so did not even know
it was on my system.
The gnome-disk-utility (palimpsest) works fine on Kubuntu as well (and can be
found searching on palimpsest using synaptic even if it can't in the default,
useless package manager - another gripe w
Ok, this is what I have found out so far:
Ubuntu Karmic, when using any full desktop install, uses devicekit-disks
by default, which is _very_ tightly integrated with udev, D-Bus,
devmapper, etc., so it is probably not a very wise idea to go poking
around at hardware with sdparm etc., unless you a
@ssergeje: Thanks for the reply. When I safely remove the drive using
the device notifier plasmoid or the dolphin function, i hear the drive
"doint something", but it doesn't spin down. But it doesn't make that
"spindown-and-up-again" noise either liken when I use the script.
When I unplug the dis
@memartin
I have a Samsung HM250JI SATA notebook drive in an external enclosure (ICY BOX
IB-290StUS-B) which doesn't spin down by default either.
On Hardy/Intrepid I could use the suspend-usb-device skript, it worked
out of the box. So did a manual sdparm --command=stop. I could hear the
drive sp
I forgot: when I listen closely, it sounds like the drive getting the
signal to stop, but then spinning up again instantly.
I remember dealing with an "allow-restart" parameter for a Seagate
FreeAgent disk a few weeks ago, that had to be set in /sys via a udev
rule to allow the drive to be restart
I have a Samsung HM250JI SATA notebook drive in an external enclosure
(ICY BOX IB-290StUS-B) which doesn't spin down by default either.
On Hardy/Intrepid I could use the suspend-usb-device skript, it worked
out of the box. So did a manual sdparm --command=stop. I could hear the
drive spin down wh
Peter > Try to install the gnome-disk-utility package ;)
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I am now using Karmic and still can't safely remove a usb hard drive from
Kubuntu.
Palimpsest sounds interesting but it is not listed in the kde package manager
nor does it show up with apt-cache search palimpsest.
Several posts I have read suggest it is installed by default, but not on my
compu
Yes that works too ;) (I have a 250Gb Western Digital Mybook)
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you mean the 'safely remove drive' option when I right click on a
mounted partition. That works alright for usb powered drives. I haven't
tried it with externally powered usb drives - does that work?
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Using Palimpsest (from Karmic) has fixed this issue as you can
disconnect AND power down any usb devices with it with just one click ;)
(You can even access S.M.A.R.T attributes from your external usb hard
drives). Haven't try sdparm command though...
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i have an update, i just realised my old seagate 400 gb external drive,
does not spin down. It does dissappear from nautilus, but does not power
down. As has always been the case (even with windows) it keeps spinning
for a 5-10 mins, before it decides to power down on its own.
No big deal, but jus
@#57 jatin sachdeva
As I understand most important is to spin down the drive and this should
work independently of USB or Firewire system, or it doesn't?
This hack can't be incorporated as permanent solution IMHO. udev rules
or sdparm should be fixed. There's a related bug with hdparm and seems
i
I see this issue with all my external hdds - a 4 yr old seagate 400gb, a
500gb seagate freeagent go, and 2 makes of the wd 1TB drives.
thanks to ssergeje, I am able to use the script on his link to
appropriately power down my external drives. Is there anyway to do this
with firewire - i have rever
Actually, this script does work also for USB Key...It switch off the USB
led light like in Windows ;)
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Ok, so now everything is working fine...but it's a little bit tricky to
solve. I hope Karmic won't have this bug
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To suspend the drive manually:
1 unmount
2 copy the rules file from /lib to /etc
3 edit the rules file
4 perform sdparm sync and stop
5 remove the drive
6 remove the rules file from /etc
so it should be there _only_ when you run sdparm commands
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Actually, I am the one to be blamed...I didn't use the script, I manually
modify the .rules file
But the file is always there anyway... you mean it should be there only when
there is an external hard drives ?
2009/8/11 ssergeje
>
> The problem with home directory happened only when /etc/ude
The problem with home directory happened only when /etc/udev/rules.d/60
-persistent-storage.rules was present. This is why it is removed by the
script after external HDD suspension.
Please check if you have the file on your system after you run the
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...Sorry, this morning ubuntu refuses to login (no home directory found).
After some investigation, it seemed that ext4 and ext3 partition was not
mounted because their UUID was not recognized in fstab (and it did not
appear in /dev/disk/by-uuid/). So this workaround is working but there are
some s
Thanks a lot ! This fix works great ;)
2009/8/11 ssergeje
>
> Hello again. I'm happy to say that spinning down correctly works for me
> on jaunty.
>
> The problem is in udev rules.
> To keep it short: I needed to copy the 60-persistent-storage.rules file,
> modify ACTION!="add|change" to ACTION!
Hello again. I'm happy to say that spinning down correctly works for me
on jaunty.
The problem is in udev rules.
To keep it short: I needed to copy the 60-persistent-storage.rules file, modify
ACTION!="add|change" to ACTION!="add". This way sdparm commands work.
You can visit http://ssergeje.wor
The script posted by FiNeX does not work for my WD ext. HDD either
~$ uname -a
Linux alvand 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 19:49:51 UTC 2009 i686
GNU/Linux
Here is the output:
~/Desktop$ sudo ./script.sh -v /dev/sdb
Found device /devices/pci:00/:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2 associated
Besides, the above script doesnt work for me :
Here is the output :
Found device /devices/pci:00/:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1 associated to /dev/sdb;
USB bus id is 1-1
Syncing device /dev/sdb
Stopping device /dev/sdb
Unbinding device 1-1
Checking whether /devices/pci:00/:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1 ca
As JoeZ251 said :
sudo sdparm --command=sync /dev/sdb
sudo sdparm --command=stop /dev/sdb
seems to spin down the hard drives only if it is mounted.
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I have a WD Passport and I can spin it down by doing sudo sdparm -C stop
/dev/sdb but only if the drive is mounted. I don't know how safe this is
since I do not know much about the purpose of mounting / unmount drives.
One of the things I haven't done much research to understand. Which way
is safer
@FiNeX wrote on 2009-07-19
This script also worked for me, tnx. With it the drive spins down as it
supposed to and does not start all over.
Can these commands be embedded in gnome unmount logic somehow? Eg if
drive is USB HDD, then sync, stop, suspend USB??
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Sorry, only the first time it didn't work. Now it works fine.
Unless on ArchLinux I've to use the script from
http://elliotli.blogspot.com/2009/01/safely-remove-usb-hard-drive-in-linux.html
So, Ubuntu 9.04 + My Book Studio Edition works well: when the PC powers
on, the WD is started, when the PC
The same problem exists with My Book Studio Edition.
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I have the same problem with my WD My Book Home Edition 1TB (using Firewire
connection) on Jaunty.
"sdparm --command=stop /dev/sdf" just causes the drive light to flicker but it
continues spinning.
The same thing happens when unmounting from the desktop except that
sometimes, 10 minutes or so af
I have had the same problem which I solved in earlier versions of Kubuntu using
the following script
#!/bin/bash
# exec >/dev/null 2>&1
exec 2>&1
pumount $1 || umount $1
sdparm --command=sync $1
sdparm --command=stop $1
This worked fine until I moved to Jaunty and now it no longer works - sdparm
Any news when spin down problem will be fixed? This keeps me stuck with
Intrepid.
Why priority of this bug is low? WEAR of inner moving parts of external drive
is in place if unplugging it without spinning down, no?
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I think this bug needs to be split into two, one that focusses on the
usability issue to have some eject mechanism to properly spin down
external drives, and one that focusses on the udev/sdparm no longer work
issue.
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