Re: iotop - or, checking what is accessing a drive

[deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org>]

On 3/22/19 4:21 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> On 3/22/19, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri 22 Mar 2019 at 14:00:24 (-0400), deb wrote:
> > > Just a reminder -- the bulk of mine are Seagate Backup Plus (1-5TB.
> > > USB 3.0).
> > > On Windows, when you dismount (Safely Remove) these
> > > the light goes off.
> > I've never seen the light go off until it spins down (those that do).
>
> You're reminding me of something I read and have now mostly forgotten.
> It was something about today's hard drives being *maybe*
> "intelligent".
>
> On some (presumably newer) hardware, there are one or more BIOS
> settings that affect how hard drives function. A quickly attempted
> search landed the potentially useful phrases of "sleep mode" and "HDD
> standby".
>
> Cindy :)

Yes Cindy.

In fact, I fought against uying Western Digital drives once they stuck a 
password protected section on their drives; and refused to give the 
credentials to customers.

That was too Intel Management Engine-y for me.


https://superuser.com/questions/969026/remove-wd-unlocker-partition-from-wd-my-book


I don't think this is it, or the sleep mode on the Seagates.

At least, that is not an issue when running on Windows.


Thanks