[kwlug-disc] powering Seagate USB external disk off and on from Linux?

Khalid Baheyeldin kb at 2bits.com
Tue Nov 18 13:53:14 EST 2025


On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/block/$DEVICE/device/delete
>
> Isn't it the same as "hdparm -Y" ?
>

It might well be, I don't know.
I tried the /sys method and it worked, so I never tried anything else.
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Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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