@Akos Ladanyi
This bug is not specific to (WD external drives|external drives|Ubuntu)
- I have the same effect with vanilla debian sid with an internal
Hitachi SATA drive. Looks like a kernel bug to me.
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I've tested this new issue in single user mode (without hal and
everything else running) and it works as it should, i.e. 'stop' really
spins down the platters. So this does not seem to be a kernel bug.
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SHORT VERSION: udev daemon to be blamed?!
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LONG VERSION:
@Akos Ladanyi: very true, sorry, I forgot to test init 1 prior to blaming the
kernel.
Works for me too in single user mode.
BTW: I see no errors related to issuing the SCSI stop command in the
I have the same problem with sdparm after upgrade to Jaunty (my storage
is Transcend StoreJet). Command sdparm -C stop /dev/sdb1 doesn't work
properly.
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sdparm commands:
sudo sdparm --command=sync /dev/sdXY
sudo sdparm --command=stop /dev/sdXY
...fail to stop external drive (despite exit codes equal to zero) after
upgrade to Jaunty (in Intrepid they work ok). My drive is WD Passport.
It seems now we (owners of external drives) are deprived of
I can confirm this. The 'stop' command seems to spin down the platters,
but only for a second and then they spin up again.
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Is here anybody who has this problem with an external hard drive that is
_not_ a WD Passport? Could these people please confirm if this bug
affects them or not?
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@Akos Ladanyi
*Transcend StoreJet* is not being stopped properly too (see Anton's comment
above: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/117713/comments/28)
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@Akos Ladanyi
Yes, this bug isn't WD specific.
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Do we need to raise another bug report dedicated specifically to this problem
(sdparm commands don't stop external drive)?
There is 2 reports which mention this problem in discussion but they (reports)
are indirect (don't dedicated specifically to this problem): this report and
I've been using the script above in comment 7
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/117713/comments/7), but I decided to
put an encrypted filesystem on it using the directions here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystemsOnRemovableStorage
However, the sdparm commands do not
the issue doesn't seem to a gnome-mount one, gnome-mount is just the
tool used by GNOME to do the mounting and the comments suggest the
command line mount does the same
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I've read it somewhere that this is a kernel driver issue (comment 23
also suggests this). Maybe the usb/sata chip used in these WD devices
has some bug which is workarounded by the Windows driver? Maybe someone
from the kernel team should take a look at this. Also if someone here
was brave enough
i'm very sorry to say but since a friend of mine accidentally dropped
the harddrive and it was broken i decided to trash both the harddrive
and the case... obviously the usb/sata-interface was part of that.
@gnome-mount: as far as i can remember this bug also occured when using the
command-line
problem still present under intrepid ibex...
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true.
i just wanted to add that i recently dissembled the harddrive (well, i took it
out of its case) and attached a different sata-usb interface and guess what:
the harddrive could be properly unmounted and unplugged without the noise.
so in case you're not afraid of breaking that shabby
I may confirm too I have this kind of bug in Xubuntu 8.04 using Thunar
0.9 with my USB external HD WD Passport.
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if you are using hardy you need to be root to use sdparm : sudo sdparm
... or gksu sdparm ...
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I tried some of the above steps to spin down the drive before ejecting
it, and now when I plug in the drive, it doesn't spin up at all, can't
find it in /dev, or do anything with it. The drive works fine on other
machines, so it's not the hard drive that's screwed.
Any ideas on how to get it
I booted into a live windows cd, and a live ubuntu CD, and neither of
them can see the drive either. dmesg | tail shows nothing when I plug in
or out the drive.
But the drive still works on other PCs.
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this bug is still present in xubuntu 8.04 using thunar 0.9
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I have created another solution for the KDE - so when you click on
'Safely Remove' context menu item, it will also call scsi-spin, if this
is a SCSI removable device. The solution is to patch /usr/bin/kdeeject
- I am attaching the patch. Note, that 'Safely Remove' can (and should)
be called even
Attached newer version of patch: we don't need scsitools anymore, as we
are using only sdparm for doing sync and stop.
** Attachment added: Patch to stop removable SCSI devices (like USB HDD) when
user clicks 'Safely Remove' in context menu item for KDE
Latest version of patch, respects -q (quiet) switch. Also removed
check for the scsi-spin binary (left from previous patch).
** Attachment added: kdeeject.diff
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13337302/kdeeject.diff
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@ kirill: nice patch, although unfortunately i can't use it in xfce.
maybe i'll try to do something similar, but first i'd have to find out
which binary thunar uses to eject removable media... (if anyone knows,
would be glad to hear bout it)
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ok, actually i found a more elegant way of dealing with this issue
(which might be great especially for newbies). first create a udev-rule
to have your wd-passport node is created at the same spot (in my case
it's /dev/wdpassport) every time you plug it in and also so that a
script is executed
i am on ubuntu 7.10 and have a wd passport 120gb (so still the first generation
of wdp) as well and noticed this annoying bug quite a while ago; still i wasn't
aware of this bugreport. i would very much appreciate a fix or even a patch for
this bug - the workaround-scripts are quite a nuisance.
Bug is still present under Hardy alpha 5
could be fine if someone could fix it, seems to be hazardous for hardware...
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Ok, I am definitely losing data when using the simple bash commands su
umount /media/WD from the shell. I'll try experimenting with the
scripts above and see if I can rectify this lost data situation on
Ubuntu with the Western Digital Passport External Hard Drives. By
default, installing Ubuntu
I have both the Western Digital Passport 160GB and 120GB external USB
harddrives and my problem is slightly different. When I unmount (eject)
either drive from the Ubuntu Desktop with right click, the drive appears
to unmount (eject) but gives an error message box that says Cannot Eject
Volume
Yes, I would suspect it is either a kernel issue or in the mount/umount
tools.
In the mean time, since I believe your spin-down method works as well as
unmount-mount-unmount and also leaves the drive spun down, I have
modified your script a bit to automatically determine from /etc/mtab
which
yes i think it's not only an ubuntu problem, maybe we have to report it
on another bugtracker ? ( umount ? linux-kernel ? )
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i actually didn't notice this problem and i always unmount my hardrive
using this script: ( of course change /dev/sdb1 by your harddrive )
#!/bin/sh
pumount /dev/sdb1
#wait for mtab to be updated
sleep 3
#we search an occurency of our harddrive in mtab
UMOUNT=`grep '/dev/sdb1' /etc/mtab | wc -c`
Apparently, either using your method (syncing and stopping the drive),
or doing what I did (unmounting-remounting-unmounting) causes the drive
to be properly sync'd, whereas just unmounting or syncing and unmounting
does not.
In any case, there seems to be a bug in the driver where this
that's really strange 'cause i have exactly the same hardrive ( western
digital passport II 160G ) and i don't have this kind of problem, i
copied a lot of avis on it and no one of them has disapearred after
unmounting it . anyway in a normal shutdown for this disk it have to
park head and stop
Sorry, I think I didn't explain my thought clearly. I think the only
time there is missing data is if the drive is unmounted and unplugged
without either doing the head parking OR doing the unmount-remount-
unmount. It appears that *either* of these works. What doesn't seem to
work is just
I have noticed this problem too (OS=Mint Cassandra (feisty)). I have
ALSO noticed the following, which is more troubling:
When I first bought the Passport (160GB model), I tried copying some
large AVI files to it, If the drive is unmounted, unplugged, and then
re-plugged and mounted, the AVI
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