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  1. Bug #1401980
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1401980

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote : Re: Usb 3 hdd drives cannot be powered off in any manner

Doug McMahon, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Could you please execute the following in a terminal:
sudo hdparm -I dev/sdX

where X is replaced with the letter corresponding to your external drive.