"Safely remove" kills SD drive (Maverick, Gnome)

Jordon Bedwell jordon at envygeeks.com
Fri Oct 8 16:46:06 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 19:37 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 05:42:17PM +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 October 2010, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > > Safely Remove approximately means "turn off power to the USB device".
> > > This is the right thing to do for USB drives (it turns off their LED,
> > > telling the user it's now safe to remove), but not a good thing for an
> > > integrated SD card reader.  Please file a bug about this.
> > 
> > An Ubuntu bug, or a Gnome bug?
> 
> Both, and then link the upstream Gnome bug to the Ubuntu bug.
> 
> I'm assuming that what happens is that when you use Safely Remove, you
> can no longer use your SD card reader until you reboot.  Is that right?
> Does the SD drive icon disappear from the device list Nautilus shows
> when you go to computer:///?
> 
> Regards,
> Marius Gedminas

Did I not already send the bug's related to this... 





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