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FanControl keeps external drives active, preventing them from being safely removed

Open alvin853 opened this issue 2 years ago • 10 comments

Any external disk drive with a temp sensor (HDD or SSD, but not thumbdrive) will get locked by FanControl, so they can not be removed safely. Usually this is not an issue, but I've been getting errors just unplugging them anyway, so I'm bringing it up now, hopefully it can be fixed.

Windows event log shows this (sorry for German, but you'll get the gist of it: FanControl prevented the removal of device)

Die Anwendung \Device\HarddiskVolume4\Users\Me\Documents\FanControl\FanControl.exe mit der Prozess-ID 16436 hat das Entfernen oder Auswerfen für das Gerät USB\VID_0BDA&PID_9210\MSFT30012345678931 beendet.

EventData 

  ProcessId 16436 
  ProcessNameLength 70 
  ProcessName \Device\HarddiskVolume4\Users\Me\Documents\FanControl\FanControl.exe 
  DeviceInstanceLength 40 
  DeviceInstance USB\VID_0BDA&PID_9210\MSFT30012345678931

alvin853 avatar Apr 13 '24 15:04 alvin853

Try this

Settings->Sensors->Edit sources->Disable "Storage"

Restart FanControl

Fr0stX76 avatar Apr 13 '24 16:04 Fr0stX76

Try this

Settings->Sensors->Edit sources->Disable "Storage"

Restart FanControl

That's not really a fix, just a workaround, and what if I wanted to use storage sensors?

alvin853 avatar May 01 '24 09:05 alvin853