On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:58:06PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> It's safe to unplug either end of a USB cable.
> 
Thanks Alan. 

> > > This may or may not be related.  Can you unmount it from the command line 
> > > and then mount it again?  Or eject it using the icon after unmounting it 
> > > manually?
> > 
> > I can mount/unmout from the command line (as root). When it is unmounted
> > the icon disappears. Mounting/unmounting doesn't seem to be any problem,
> > nor does reading/writing to the disk.
> 
> Then this is probably a separate issue.  Maybe it's a permissions problem.  
> Or maybe the icon approach works okay for unmount step and then fails in 
> the eject step.  If you want to experiment some more, you can try "eject 
> /dev/sda" on the command line.

Using "eject /dev/sda" from the command line ejected the disk with the 
following error: "eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument"

I'm sure you're correct. This is most likely unrelated. I'll do some searching 
and see what I can find on it.

Thank you again for all the help. 

Kent, K5KNT


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