Same behaviour (on natty 11.04) for me on my ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard. Using safe remove remounts the usb key a few seconds after the action.
I think that there is a little problem with Nvidia's USB chipsets. I always have this message on my dmesg: [10420.100709] WARNING! power/level is deprecated; use power/control instead Does anybody knows how to switch on power/control instead of power/level (to see if the problem persists) ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/624755 Title: to remove a pen drive have to use "safely remove drive " twice -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs