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 after unmounting, the drive does spin down on its own. But othertimes, the drive just stays spinning. Another issue (don't know if it's related) is that if the system goes into Suspend mode with the drive on, it hangs with a black screen on resume. -- WD external drives need to be spun down, "sdparm --command=stop" doesn't work any more https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117713 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
