how do turn off an external hard drive

[jdow]

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

> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Stephen Walton wrote:
>>
>> > Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> >
>> > >I have an 80 GB IOMEGA USB2 hard drive.
>> > >Mounting it is easy.
>> > >Unmounting seems to work,
>> > >but when I push the power off button,
>> > >the power stays on.
>> > >How do I turn the power off?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > On my Maxtor USB drive I just hold the power button in until it shuts 
>> > off.
>>
>> 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.

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