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Western Digital drive unmount won't spin down

Bug #179255 reported by Nico
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linux (Ubuntu)
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Low
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Bug Description

After unmounting my Western Digital portable harddrive, the drive continues to spin for 10 minutes, even if no data was written to the drive, resulting in an awful "unsafe removal" noise when it is unplugged. It seems like the hard drive heads aren't syncing. After posting on the forums, a solution was found with a nautilus script.

original post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=650153

solution post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2761781&postcount=15

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jtholmes (jtholmes) wrote :

Thank you for your report

Could you please provide the following information

Ubuntu Version
Kernel Version

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Trey Brown (trey.brown) wrote :

I have a WD Passport and experiance this issue, as per the above request

Ubuntu Hardy Heron amd64 Beta

2.6.24-12-generic

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Trey Brown (trey.brown) wrote :

Here is a related forum post:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=451344

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morgengenuss (morgengenuss) wrote :

please take notice of the same bug being reported earlier at launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/117713

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

Nico, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Hardy Desktop reached EOL on May 12, 2011.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Is this an issue in a supported release? If so, could you please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 179255

affects: ubuntu → linux (Ubuntu)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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