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 no discernable head parking has taken place. I tried it in Windows XP and it definitely behaves differently ... very noticeable head parking (can be felt more than heard) and then it completely powers down also. Is nothing being done to fix this? You're expected to carry these little drives from place to place ... it has to be causing premature drive failure by not parking the heads and powering them down in an orderly fashion. I thought the heads might self-park when the USB plug is removed but there is no discernable sound of this happening. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117713 Title: WD external drives need to be spun down, "sdparm --command=stop" doesn't work any more To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/117713/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
