how do turn off an external hard drive

[Michael Hennebry]

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.
Just for the hell of it, I tried "ejecting".


root at 24-117-46-53 media]# df -h IO*
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              75G  349M   75G   1% /media/IOMEGA_HDD
[root at 24-117-46-53 media]# eject -v /media/IOMEGA_HDD
eject: device name is `/media/IOMEGA_HDD'
eject: expanded name is `/media/IOMEGA_HDD'
eject: `/dev/sda1' is mounted at `/media/IOMEGA_HDD'
eject: unmounting device `/dev/sda1' from `/media/IOMEGA_HDD'
eject: `/dev/sda1' is a multipartition device
eject: trying to eject `/dev/sda1' using CD-ROM eject command
eject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded
[root at 24-117-46-53 media]#

There were no CD's to eject and drawers did not open.

[root at 24-117-46-53 media]# cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/usr/local        /usr/local              ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda5               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdd                /media/cdrecorder       auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed,user 0 0
/dev/hdc                /media/cdrom            auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed,user 0 0
/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed,user 0 0
/dev/sda1               /media/IOMEGA_HDD       vfat    pamconsole,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0


How do I turn the power off?
Just unplugging would seem a bad idea.

-- 
Mike   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES.  *I* ONLY TURN UP ONCE."  --  Death