Can a USB external powered drive be turned off?

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rothmail
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Can a USB external powered drive be turned off?

Post by rothmail » 2018/03/22 15:41:07

I'm using a LaCie USB powered external drive on CentOS 7. By powered, it gets the power for the drive from the USB connection on the server.

There is no issue plugging the drive in and using it, but after it is umount and trying to disconnect it, it generates an error message in the log indicating it isn't happy about being disconnected while it was still being powered. I don't know of a way to actually power the drive down without powering down the server which certainly isn't ideal.

Is there a way to power down the USB drive, or have CentOS ignore it from caring that it is still powering it?

If the drive has been umounted with an issue, does it hurt anything to simply disconnect it while it is being powered?

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Re: Can a USB external powered drive be turned off?

Post by TrevorH » 2018/03/22 16:48:30

What message?
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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Re: Can a USB external powered drive be turned off?

Post by rothmail » 2018/03/22 17:41:56

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Mar 22 13:40:07 myserver kernel: usb 4-6.4: USB disconnect, device number 4
Mar 22 13:40:07 myserver kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Synchronizing SCSI cache
Mar 22 13:40:07 myserver kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Synchronize Cache(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
The above was generated after I did an umount, and then unplugged the USB connection for the USB LaCie external drive from the server.

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