# WD essential power button suppor?

**URL:** https://support.blue-systems.com/t/wd-essential-power-button-suppor/2236
**Category:** Netrunner 13.12
**Created:** [May 18, 2014, 9:02am UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/wd-essential-power-button-suppor/2236 "2014-05-18T09:02:38Z")
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### Author: ![Slimy](https://support.blue-systems.com/letter_avatar/slimy/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Slimy](https://support.blue-systems.com/u/Slimy)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2014, 9:02am UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/wd-essential-power-button-suppor/2236/1 "2014-05-18T09:02:38Z")

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Is possible make power button working for external hdd, from manual this button should work only with WD software, I think it just generate signal to unmount drive from a system. Is something like this possible for linux?

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### Author: ![leszek](https://support.blue-systems.com/user_avatar/support.blue-systems.com/leszek/32/13_2.png) [@leszek](https://support.blue-systems.com/u/leszek)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 8:20am UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/wd-essential-power-button-suppor/2236/2 "2014-05-19T08:20:30Z")

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They use a special driver for this. So until WD does not release this for linux I think you can’t use that feature.