How to stop USB-HDD?

Applications Filesystems, Disks and Memory
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Hi,

There is the following minor issue with USB-harddrive:
On windows: when i perform "safely remove" disk is stopped (hdd head is parking) & it is not spinning (but it is still connected to USB)
On Linux (Fedora 14, OpenSUSE): when i perform "umount", HDD is still spinning.

Could you please provide any info on how to stop disk when it is not used.

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It's safe to remove the drive once it's not mounted. I'll keep looking for how to spin down the drive...

---------- Post updated at 09:41 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:28 PM ----------

sg3_utils contains a utility, sg_start, which can be used to manually spin down a drive.

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