Christopher Desjardins wrote:
I've noticed that my IPod also experiences this and after I've
eventually ejected it the device stills gives the impression that it is
communicating with my computer (i.e. it says do not remove device on the
screen of the IPod). I know that at least Ubuntu and Fedora have
figured out how to properly communicate with an IPod so that it can be
safely removed (i.e. that warning goes away and my battery icon comes
on).
I think that this problem is not specific to iPod but more generally
related to removable devices. I think it is related to bug #367836 that,
probably, happens to few people, since nobody has replied to it since may...
On my Debian Sid, i have learned that actually i can't trust on the
"unmount volume" function of Nautilus: when the volume icon disappear, i
can't trust that it is really unmounted, since many times i have
verified that a mount command reports that it is *not* mounted yet!
I can suggest you to follow that procedure to verify what i've said:
1) open a terminal (will be useful later);
2) plug-in an usb stick (probably an USB1 key or a USB1 controller is
better because of the lesser speed: see later why);
3) copy large amount of data from the hard disk to the usb device;
4) right-click on the device and select "Unmount volume" and wait that
it disappear;
5) run "mount" on the terminal to see if the device is present (and
probably it will be).
It's clear that the icon is removed before the buffer is flushed on the
usb device. And worst, sometimes i've seen that the flush command is not
given right after the removal user request, but sometimes later (this is
clear if you pay attention to the usb activity led).
So, what i do to be sure that i can remove safely my device is:
1) open a terminal;
2) *before* unmount the device, run the "sync" command and wait;
3) right-click on the device and select "Unmount volume" and wait that
it disappear;
Now if you check running "mount", you can see that your device is
correctly unmounted.
I don't know how to solve this problem inside Gnome, but i hope that
these informations could be useful in some way to solve this
(important) bug.
Regards.
Cesare.
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