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Hi All
I am using a HP Elitebook 8470p laptop and OS is Ubuntu 13.04 (x64). this laptop have 2 USB 3.0 ports. whenever i try to safe remove my Seagate USB3.0 1Tb HDD, it will get reconnected automaticaly. pls help me to get this fixed as i am unable to safe remove my external HDD
if you (or any app) doesn't start writing to the hd in the meantime, you can just pull it out. really.
Hi ohnonot,
But in Windows, when i select the device and safe remove, the HDD power will go off after safelanding HDD Heads. But if we remove HDD without safe remove.. i don't feel itz safe as still Platters will be rotating and Head may not be at landing place..
Viswan.
hello,
it seems i was half wrong - there is something called "delayed write" on windows, which, afaik, does not exist in the linux world, thank god. this would make it necessary in the first place to add a button "safely eject drive" even for usb sticks.
also, i have an old (+5 years) external usb hd with external power source, that doesn't even have a switch, you can't do anything else but just pull the plug.
plus, i never had data failure although i'm treating all my external devices this way.
but i admit that i am unfamiliar with really new hardware.
anyhow, blah, blah, i got curious and did some web searches, sth you might have done yourself before posting.
here's what i got:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/23452...drive-on-12-10
http://askubuntu.com/questions/56270...nal-hard-drive
and even a little app to do it:
https://github.com/fenrrir/bdin
would any of those answer your question?