On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 19:47 -0800, Serguei Miridonov wrote: > Second, with current F7 hal/udev configuration, the drive does not > stop after unmount with clicking "Safely remove" in KDE. If you just > disconnect it the drive does emergency heads parking which is not > always safe. To prevent this, I used sdparm to stop spinning the > drive. Check message I've yet to come across a drive that does shutdown through software control. All I've seen them do is dismount, and sit there idly spinning. That hasn't been a problem for me, since the external hard drives I've played with have a power switch and an external supply. So I've just turned them off. The only hard drives I've seen parked is when you shut down Linux, and it stops the drives shortly before the computer powers down. Other OSs don't bother to do that. They just flush the drive, and turn everything off when the power supply goes off. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
