2012/5/16 Jonathan Kamens <j...@kamens.us>
> I have an USB thumb drive with an LED that lights up when it is activated. > > On Windows, when I am done using it, I can "safely remove" the device, at > which point the LED turns off and I know it is safe to unplug it from the > system. > > I could be remembering wrong, but I thought there was an equivalent > "safely remove" command in Fedora. However, on my F17 system, I can no > longer find this command anywhere, e.g., it isn't on the menu when I > right-click on the drive's icon, and neither umounting nor ejecting the > drive from that menu causes the LED to turn off. This, understandably, > makes me uncomfortable about yanking it out of the system. > > So (a) what is the right way to completely deactivate a USB device, so > that the device knows and tells the user that it has been deactivated, and > (b) is there a bug here that I should be filing in bugzilla? > > Thanks, > > jik > > > that is interesting. i plugin a 4GB usb stick, and it's mounted and i can see it in "Computer" as "$.0 GB Drive: $.0 GB Volume". if i right click and "Eject", the label changes to "Drive" , but the LED is on. If i right click on "Drive" and eject, "Drive" is still there but the LED is reset. i don't understand what's going on here.
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