how do turn off an external hard drive

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Mon Sep 26 23:14:08 UTC 2005


jdow wrote:
> From: "Michael Hennebry" <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
> 

[snip]

>>> Nyet on my IOMEGA.
>>> I had this problem before,
>>> but don't remember what I did about it.
>>
>>
>> Now I do.
>> The USB connector had to be unplugged before the power off switch 
>> would work.
> 
> 
> That makes sense. It would be an easy way to prevent placing an overload
> on the USB power bus.

I believe the rationale is to prevent power-down while the
drive (may) still be in use (mounted).

Mike
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