Linux: USB device power management

Question

I have a USB Hard Drive

In Windows, i used to click the "Safely remove" icon, and the hdd stopped spinning and was unmounted.

Now, in Linux, unmounting doesn't poweroff the device, and it proceeds spinning when i remove it's cable. Is there a way to poweroff the HDD?

Additionally, I'd like to teach the KDE's "Device notifier" plasmoid to do this :)

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 22 '09 at 21:56

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Try something like sudo sdparm --command=stop /dev/sd[x]

answered Jul 22 '09 at 21:56

Sergey

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Супер, пасиба! :) – kolypto Jul 22 '09 at 22:29
В репутацию можно было и пнуть – Sergey Jul 23 '09 at 08:11
sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sd[x] also makes the device enter sleep mode. – kolypto Jul 27 '09 at 17:30

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