WD Passport (2TB) with Linux

WD External Drives WD Portable Drives
1

Hi,

I dual boot both WIndows 7/64 and Fedora 17 on the same laptop I share with the WD 2TB disc. 

I can mount/use the drive fine from both OS’s but I was wondering the safest way to park the heads (the windows version is buggy to say the least but does the job eventually).

Call me old fashioned but I do like to be able to turn the drive off (and park) rather than just pulling the plug :slight_smile:  I ahve hate having to reboot into windows just to do this!

2

Fixed

download hdapsd (available from yum), though not having much luck …

i.e.

for i in df -h|grep sd|awk '{print $1}'

do

hdapsd -d -f $i

done

gets the message : “Could not find suitbale interface”

3

Strike it, my laptop is not a Lenovo so hdapsd is not compatible - back to the drawing board :frowning: