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Howto: switch off / spin down external USB / Firewire disk / hard drive

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Recently I’ve bought ssd drive for my notebook and 2.5″ Enclosure for the old hdd.
My 2.5″ Enclosure has no switch on/off, so … to turn it off I have to plug and unplug the usb cable, but … there’s a better way
All I need to do is to install sg3-utils, and use two simple commands […]

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