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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Clément Léger, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Intrepid reached EOL on April 30, 2010.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Is this still and issue in a supported release? If so, could you please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 117713

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       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  WD external drives need to be spun down, "sdparm --command=stop"
  doesn't work any more

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Try to dismount a USB external Western digital passport harddrive , it
  will be ok but the cylinders will be still rotating , then if you
  unplug your hardrrive it'll do a strange noise like a violent hard
  drive parking. ( in Microsoft windows the eject the device safely
  option stop the heads ) at the moment the only solution to stop
  properly the hard drive is tu use sdparm , here is the script :

  #!/bin/sh
  WD=/dev/sdb1
  sudo umount $WD
  if [ $? -eq 0 ]
  then
  	echo Stopping heads
          #Stop properly the heads and cylinders
  	sdparm --command=stop $WD 
  else
  	echo Unmount Failed !
  fi

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