Comment 1 for bug 117713
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| Dave Rosky (d-rosky) wrote Re: not proper dismounting for WD passport harddrive (making noise when unplug) | #1 |
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I have noticed this problem too (OS=Mint Cassandra (feisty)). I have ALSO noticed the following, which is more troubling:
When I first bought the Passport (160GB model), I tried copying some large AVI files to it, If the drive is unmounted, unplugged, and then re-plugged and mounted, the AVI files are sometimes either not there, or are corrupt. If, however, the drive is unmounted and then re-mounted BEFORE unplugging, then the files appear fine, it's as if the re-mount was required to sync the drive. This occurs regardless of whether the partition on the Passport is VFAT or EXT3. The same problem occurs with deleting the large AVI's -- If the drive is unmounted and unplugged, re-plugged and re-mounted, most often the file re-appears, however, if the drive is re-mounted BEFORE unplugging and then unmounted again, all is OK.
I tried manually syncing the drive before umounting, but this doesn't solve the problem. The only workaround so far for me has been to unmount-
It appears that somehow this drive is not syncing properly when unmounted.
I haven't noticed this on other removable drives so far,