Spoke too early, drive just woke up out of the blue, after having been manually unmounted in nautilus, and forced to standby with hdparm -y (now that it works), without me re-mounting it or anything.
dmesg does not report anything relevant: [ 641.041831] EXT4-fs (sde1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 641.142793] EXT4-fs (sde2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 1277.415515] perf: interrupt took too long (2538 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 78750 [ 2388.046183] perf: interrupt took too long (3176 > 3172), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 62750 /sys/block/sde/events_poll_msecs seems to also default to -1 I keep monitoring to see what happens -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1733068 Title: Unmounted USB drives wake up on 16.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1733068/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs