On Sat, 2005-24-09 at 17:02 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I have an 80 GB IOMEGA USB2 hard drive. > Mounting it is easy. > Unmounting seems to work, > but when I push the power off button, > the power stays on. > Just for the hell of it, I tried "ejecting". > > > root@24-117-46-53 media]# df -h IO* > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 75G 349M 75G 1% /media/IOMEGA_HDD > [root@24-117-46-53 media]# eject -v /media/IOMEGA_HDD > eject: device name is `/media/IOMEGA_HDD' > eject: expanded name is `/media/IOMEGA_HDD' > eject: `/dev/sda1' is mounted at `/media/IOMEGA_HDD' > eject: unmounting device `/dev/sda1' from `/media/IOMEGA_HDD' > eject: `/dev/sda1' is a multipartition device > eject: trying to eject `/dev/sda1' using CD-ROM eject command > eject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded > [root@24-117-46-53 media]# > > There were no CD's to eject and drawers did not open. > > [root@24-117-46-53 media]# cat /etc/fstab > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > LABEL=/usr/local /usr/local ext3 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed,user 0 0 > /dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed,user 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed,user 0 0 > /dev/sda1 /media/IOMEGA_HDD vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0 > > > How do I turn the power off? > Just unplugging would seem a bad idea. I have a few USB2 and FireWire drives, and after unmounting them I just unplug the cable. I use some as data shuttles and don't usually power them off when unplugging them from one machine to plug into another. In the last two years I have only had one weird issue and I just posted it on Friday, but all is well now. By the way all my enclosures have a toggle switch to shut them down.
