On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:11:56AM -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Well, that's interesting, about making sure it's stopped. I've asked here > a month or two ago, and got no responses: my manager has me using > pmount/pumount to mount the hard drives I'm putting in the eSATA drive bay > for offline backups. Formerly, I used mount/umount, and when I umounted > it, and walked downstairs, mostly, esp the green drives, were spun down. I > pumount... and *nothing* spins down. They stay spinning, which is obvious, > as I can feel the gyroscopic action as I pop them out immediately after > hitting the button to turn off the power to the drive. > > That box is running CentOS 7. Just to note, `pmount' is an EPEL package, not a CentOS package. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>