I have both the Western Digital Passport 160GB and 120GB external USB harddrives and my problem is slightly different. When I unmount (eject) either drive from the Ubuntu Desktop with right click, the drive appears to unmount (eject) but gives an error message box that says Cannot Eject Volume and the drive immediately remounts and opens up a new window with contents of drive displayed. This cycle repeats ever time I try to unmount (eject) the drive (opening more windows for the drive on each try). This problem does not exist on Fedora Core 5,6 or 7 using these drives - they unmount properly on Fedora using graphical icon and bash shell. If I switch to root using su in the bash shell then umount /media/WD Passport on Ubuntu it seems to work ok and the icon goes away but the same can not be done from the graphical desktop.
My drives make a high pitched whine or chirp from high frequency to low over about a one second period when physically unplugging drives under both Fedora and Ubuntu, so I think that is normal. I've never heard the clunking head docking sound described earlier. I have not lost any data and often transfer large 2GByte AVI files to an from the drives. I have Ubuntu 7 recenty downloaded since 7 was released. I am a new user to Ubuntu and don't know how to submit bugs. I can provide more diagnostics or testing to who ever this information is useful for to fix the problem. I basically have the bash shell method working but wonder why the graphical unmount (eject) is flawed in Ubuntu. Is there user editable shell code behind the right click graphical icon method to add the correct shell commands? -- not proper dismounting for WD passport harddrive (making noise when unplug) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117713 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
